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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