engagement 音标拼音: [ɛng'edʒmənt]
n . 约会,约定,婚约;雇用,聘用
约会,约定,婚约;雇用,聘用
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 " [
synonym : {
battle }, {
conflict },
{
fight }, {
engagement }]
2 :
a meeting arranged in advance ; "
she asked how to avoid kissing at the end of a date " [
synonym : {
date }, {
appointment },
{
engagement }]
3 :
a mutual promise to marry [
synonym : {
betrothal }, {
troth },
{
engagement }]
4 :
the act of giving someone a job [
synonym : {
employment },
{
engagement }]
5 :
employment for performers or performing groups that lasts for a limited period of time ; "
the play had bookings throughout the summer " [
synonym : {
engagement }, {
booking }]
6 :
contact by fitting together ; "
the engagement of the clutch ";
"
the meshing of gears " [
synonym : {
engagement }, {
mesh }, {
meshing },
{
interlocking }]
7 :
the act of sharing in the activities of a group ; "
the teacher tried to increase his students '
engagement in class activities " [
synonym : {
engagement }, {
participation },
{
involvement }, {
involution }] [
ant : {
non -
engagement }, {
non -
involvement }, {
nonparticipation }]
Engagement \
En *
gage "
ment \,
n . [
Cf .
F .
engagement .]
1 .
The act of engaging ,
pledging ,
enlisting ,
occupying ,
or entering into contest .
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1913 Webster ]
2 .
The state of being engaged ,
pledged or occupied ;
specif .,
a pledge to take some one as husband or wife .
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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 .
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1913 Webster ]
Religion ,
which is the chief engagement of our league . --
Milton .
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4 . (
Mil .)
An action ;
a fight ;
a battle .
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In hot engagement with the Moors . --
Dryden .
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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 }.
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1913 Webster ]
212 Moby Thesaurus words for "
engagement ":
Olympic games ,
Olympics ,
absorbed attention ,
absorption ,
action ,
affair ,
affiance ,
agreement ,
allurement ,
alternation ,
application ,
appointment ,
arrangement ,
assignation ,
association ,
attempt ,
banns ,
banns of matrimony ,
bargain ,
battle ,
berth ,
bespeaking ,
betrothal ,
betrothing ,
betrothment ,
billet ,
blandishment ,
blind date ,
booking ,
borscht circuit ,
bout ,
briefing ,
business ,
cajolement ,
cajolery ,
circuit ,
coaction ,
coaxing ,
cochairmanship ,
combat ,
commission ,
commitment ,
complementary distribution ,
complicity ,
concentration ,
concours ,
concurrence ,
condominium ,
conflict ,
conning ,
contemplation ,
contest ,
contract ,
contribution ,
cooperation ,
copartnership ,
copartnery ,
cotenancy ,
covenant ,
date ,
deal ,
deep study ,
deep thought ,
derby ,
double date ,
effort ,
embarrassment ,
employment ,
encounter ,
engagement book ,
engaging ,
engrossment ,
enlistment ,
enmeshment ,
entanglement ,
enterprise ,
espousal ,
exhortation ,
fight ,
game ,
games ,
get -
together ,
gig ,
go ,
gymkhana ,
handfasting ,
having a part ,
hiring ,
hortation ,
immersion ,
implication ,
inclusion ,
incumbency ,
inducement ,
intentness ,
interaction ,
interchange ,
intercommunication ,
intercourse ,
interlacing ,
intermeshing ,
interplay ,
intertwining ,
interview ,
interweaving ,
interworking ,
invitation ,
involution ,
involvement ,
jawboning ,
job ,
joint chairmanship ,
joint control ,
joint ownership ,
joint tenancy ,
joust ,
lobbying ,
marriage contract ,
marriage proposal ,
match ,
matching ,
meditation ,
meet ,
meeting ,
mesh ,
meshing ,
monomania ,
moonlighting ,
obligation ,
obsession ,
offer of marriage ,
office ,
opening ,
operation ,
partaking ,
participation ,
partnership ,
persuasion ,
place ,
plan ,
playing engagement ,
pledge ,
plight ,
plighted faith ,
plighted troth ,
position ,
post ,
preaching ,
preachment ,
preengagement ,
preoccupation ,
profound thought ,
program ,
project ,
promise ,
proposal ,
proposition ,
quid pro quo ,
rally ,
rapt attention ,
recognizance ,
relation ,
rencontre ,
rendezvous ,
reservation ,
retainment ,
run ,
sales talk ,
salesmanship ,
second job ,
seesaw ,
selling ,
service ,
sharing ,
single -
mindedness ,
situation ,
snow job ,
soft soap ,
solicitation ,
spot ,
stand ,
station ,
studiousness ,
study ,
suasion ,
submersion ,
suffrage ,
sweet talk ,
taking on ,
task ,
tenure ,
test ,
tilt ,
tit for tat ,
tour ,
tournament ,
tourney ,
trial ,
troth ,
tryst ,
understanding ,
undertaking ,
vacancy ,
vaudeville circuit ,
venture ,
verbal agreement ,
visit ,
voting ,
wheedling ,
word ,
work ,
working on
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