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Engaged   /ɛngˈeɪdʒd/   Listen
Engaged

adjective
1.
Having ones attention or mind or energy engaged.  Synonym: occupied.  "Deeply engaged in conversation"
2.
Involved in military hostilities.
3.
Reserved in advance.  Synonyms: booked, set-aside.
4.
(of facilities such as telephones or lavatories) unavailable for use by anyone else or indicating unavailability; ('engaged' is a British term for a busy telephone line).  Synonyms: busy, in use.  "Receptionists' telephones are always engaged" , "The lavatory is in use" , "Kept getting a busy signal"
5.
(used of toothed parts or gears) interlocked and interacting.  Synonyms: intermeshed, meshed.  "Meshed gears" , "Intermeshed twin rotors"
6.
Having services contracted for.
7.
Built against or attached to a wall.


Engage

verb
(past & past part. engaged; pres. part. engaging)
1.
Carry out or participate in an activity; be involved in.  Synonyms: prosecute, pursue.  "They engaged in a discussion"
2.
Consume all of one's attention or time.  Synonyms: absorb, engross, occupy.
3.
Engage or hire for work.  Synonyms: employ, hire.  "How many people has she employed?"
4.
Ask to represent; of legal counsel.
5.
Give to in marriage.  Synonyms: affiance, betroth, plight.
6.
Get caught.
7.
Carry on (wars, battles, or campaigns).  Synonym: wage.
8.
Hire for work or assistance.  Synonym: enlist.
9.
Engage for service under a term of contract.  Synonyms: charter, hire, lease, rent, take.  "Let's rent a car" , "Shall we take a guide in Rome?"
10.
Keep engaged.  Synonyms: lock, mesh, operate.



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"Engaged" Quotes from Famous Books



... have given you anything since we were engaged, Mary,' he said, as he seated himself ...
— Phantom Fortune, A Novel • M. E. Braddon
... Justice BANKS recently referred to the possible establishment of a Law Courts' creche, where the female barrister might leave her young while engaged in forensic duties.] ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 156, April 23, 1919 • Various
... this hall sat Mr. Sherwood during most part of the morning, either engaged with his accounts, his journal, or his books. He, of course, did not like the confinement so well as I did, and often contrived to get out to a neighbour's bungalow in his palanquin during some part of the long morning. In one of the side-rooms sat Sergeant Clarke, with his books and accounts. ...
— The Fairchild Family • Mary Martha Sherwood
... inestimable value; but even the letters that Goldsmith wrote home from time to time are lost; while The Traveller consists chiefly of a series of philosophical reflections on the government of various states, more likely to have engaged the attention of a Fleet-Street author, living in an atmosphere of books, than to have occupied the mind of a tramp anxious about his supper and his night's lodging. Boswell says he "disputed" his way through Europe. It is much more probable that he begged his way through Europe. The romantic ...
— Goldsmith - English Men of Letters Series • William Black
... upon a low stool he began to pick up the crumbs, carrying them to his mouth one by one with unbelievable rapidity. In the dense blotch of light beneath the table, the kneeling figure looked like a priest engaged in some service of his church. The nervous expressive fingers, flashing in and out of the light, might well have been mistaken for the fingers of the devotee going swiftly through decade after decade of ...
— Winesburg, Ohio • Sherwood Anderson


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