Hypertext Webster Gateway: "engagement"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Engagement \En*gage"ment\, n. [Cf. F. engagement.]
1. The act of engaging, pledging, enlisting, occupying, or
entering into contest.

2. The state of being engaged, pledged or occupied; specif.,
a pledge to take some one as husband or wife.

3. 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.

Religion, which is the chief engagement of our
league. --Milton.

4. (Mil.) An action; a fight; a battle.

In hot engagement with the Moors. --Dryden.

5. (Mach.) The state of being in gear; as, one part of a
clutch is brought into engagement with the other part.

Syn: Vocation; business; employment; occupation; promise;
stipulation; betrothal; word; battle; combat; fight;
contest; conflict. See {Battle}.

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

engagement
n 1: 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" [syn: {battle}, {conflict},
{fight}]
2: a meeting arranged in advance; "she asked how to avoid
kissing at the end of a date" [syn: {date}, {appointment}]
3: a mutual promise to marry [syn: {betrothal}, {troth}]
4: the act of giving someone a job [syn: {employment}]
5: employment for performers or performing groups that lasts
for a limited period of time; "the play had bookings
throughout the summer" [syn: {booking}]
6: contact by fitting together; "the engagement of the clutch";
"the meshing of gears" [syn: {mesh}, {meshing}, {interlocking}]
7: sharing the activities of a group; "the teacher tried to
increase his students' engagement in class activities"
[syn: {participation}, {involvement}] [ant: {non-engagement},
{non-engagement}, {non-engagement}]


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