engaged

IPA: ɛngˈeɪdʒd

adjective

  • Having agreed to marry a particular person (one's fiancé or fiancée) or each other.
  • Busy or employed.
  • Greatly interested.
  • (Britain) (of a telephone) Already involved in a telephone call when a third party calls.
  • (architecture, of a column) attached to a wall or sunk into it halfway
  • (of gears or cogs) in contact and in operation
  • (military) being attacked or attacking
  • (medicine, of a foetus) Having the widest part of its presenting part, usually the head, enter the pelvic brim or inlet.
  • Synonym of engagé (“passionately committed to a cause”)
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Examples of "engaged" in Sentences

  • He engaged in the plumbing business.
  • He engaged in the mercantile business.
  • He engaged in the mercantile and timber business.
  • The forger overdid the work in which he was engaged.
  • He engaged in agricultural pursuits and in the mercantile business.
  • In 1930, he engaged in the investment brokerage business in Chicago.
  • During the next six years Brown was engaged in deputation and circuit work.

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