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say it: en-GAYJ-muhnt
engagement is a noun meaning "a hostile meeting of opposing military forces in the course of a war". It carries 7 recorded senses.
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”
military
a meeting arranged in advance
“she asked how to avoid kissing at the end of a date”
the act of giving someone a job
employment for performers or performing groups that lasts for a limited period of time
“the play had bookings throughout the summer”
contact by fitting together
“the engagement of the clutch”
“the meshing of gears”
the act of sharing in the activities of a group
“the teacher tried to increase his students' engagement in class activities”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for engagement come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.