DICTOMETER

ENGAGEMENT

(engagement, cese, obligación, engasjement, forlovelse, forpliktelse, holdning)

1. Synonyms:
   • Battle
   • Conflict
   • Fight
   • Engagement
   Definitions:
   • a hostile meeting of opposing military forces in the course of a war
   Examples:
   • Grant won a decisive victory in the battle of Chickamauga
   • He lost his romantic ideas about war when he got into a real engagement
   Antonyms:
   non-engagement, nonparticipation, non-involvement
   
   
   
2. Synonyms:
   • Date
   • Appointment
   • Engagement
   Definitions:
   • a meeting arranged in advance
   Examples:
   • She asked how to avoid kissing at the end of a date
   
   
3. Synonyms:
   • Betrothal
   • Troth
   • Engagement
   Definitions:
   • a mutual promise to marry
   
   
4. Synonyms:
   • Employment
   • Engagement
   Definitions:
   • the act of giving someone a job
   
   
5. Synonyms:
   • Engagement
   • Booking
   Definitions:
   • employment for performers or performing groups that lasts for a limited period of time
   Examples:
   • The play had bookings throughout the summer
   
   
6. Synonyms:
   • Engagement
   • Mesh
   • Meshing
   • Interlocking
   Definitions:
   • contact by fitting together
   Examples:
   • The engagement of the clutch
   • The meshing of gears
   
   
7. Synonyms:
   • Engagement
   • Participation
   • Involvement
   • Involution
   Definitions:
   • the act of sharing in the activities of a group
   Examples:
   • The teacher tried to increase his students' engagement in class activities