ENGAGEMENT

• (noun) employment for performers or performing groups that lasts for a limited period of time

  "the play had bookings throughout the summer"

  synonyms : booking

• (noun) a hostile meeting of opposing military forces in the course of a war

  "Grant won a decisive victory in the battle of Chickamauga", "he lost his romantic ideas about war when he got into a real engagement"

  synonyms : battle , conflict , fight

• (noun) the act of giving someone a job

  synonyms : employment

• (noun) the act of sharing in the activities of a group

  "the teacher tried to increase his students' engagement in class activities"

  synonyms : involution , involvement , participation

• (noun) a mutual promise to marry

  synonyms : betrothal , troth

• (noun) contact by fitting together

  "the engagement of the clutch", "the meshing of gears"

  synonyms : interlocking , mesh , meshing

• (noun) a meeting arranged in advance

  "she asked how to avoid kissing at the end of a date"

  synonyms : appointment , date

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