Thesaurus: engagement

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1. n. The act of engaging, pledging, enlisting, occupying, or entering into contest.
2. n. The state of being engaged, pledged or occupied; specif., a pledge to take some one as husband or wife.
3. n. That which engages; engrossing occupation; employment of the attention; obligation by pledge, promise, or contract; an enterprise embarked in; as, his engagements prevented his acceptance of any office.
4. n. An action; a fight; a battle.
5. n. The state of being in gear; as, one part of a clutch is brought into engagement with the other part.
6. n. a hostile meeting of opposing military forces in the course of a war
7. n. a meeting arranged in advance
8. n. a mutual promise to marry
9. n. the act of giving someone a job
10. n. employment for performers or performing groups that lasts for a limited period of time
11. n. contact by fitting together
12. n. the act of sharing in the activities of a group