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Definitions: Engagement |
EngagementNoun1. 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". 2. A meeting arranged in advance; "she asked how to avoid kissing at the end of a date". 3. A mutual promise to marry. 4. The act of giving someone a job. 5. Employment for performers or performing groups that lasts for a limited period of time; "the play had bookings throughout the summer". 6. Contact by fitting together; "the engagement of the clutch"; "the meshing of gears". 7. Sharing the activities of a group; "the teacher tried to increase his students' engagement in class activities". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "engagement" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
Etymology: Engagement \En*gage"ment\, noun. [Compare to the French expression engagement.]. (Websters 1913) |
| Domain | Definitions |
19th Century Satire | In war, a battle. In love, the salubrious calm that precedes the real hostilities. Source: Foolish Dictionary, 1904. |
Computing | Action of connecting or setting a system. Source: European Union. (references) |
Dream Interpretation | To dream of a business engagement, denotes dulness and worries in trade. For young people to dream that they are engaged, denotes that they will not be much admired. To dream of breaking an engagement, denotes a hasty, and an unwise action in some important matter or disappointments may follow. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
Economics | The act or state of employing or being employed. Source: European Union. (references) |
Law | A legal relationship between two or more persons, according to which one(the creditor)is entitled to a specific performance, whilst the other(the debitor)is obliged to carry it out. Source: European Union. (references) |
Mechanical Engineering | The condition of a gear when it meshes with another gear. Source: European Union. (references) |
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Synonyms: EngagementSynonyms: appointment (n), battle (n), betrothal (n), booking (n), conflict (n), date (n), employment (n), fight (n), interlocking (n), involvement (n), mesh (n), meshing (n), participation (n), troth (n). (additional references) |
| Antonym: non-engagement (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Business | Office, place, post, chargeship, incumbency, living; situation, berth, employ; service; (servitude); engagement; undertaking. |
Office, place, post, chargeship, incumbency, living; situation, berth, employ; service; (servitude); engagement; undertaking. | |
Contention | Naval engagement, naumachia, sea fight. |
Conflict, skirmish; rencounter, encounter; rencontre, collision, affair, brush, fight; battle, battle royal; combat, action, engagement, joust, tournament; tilt, tilting; tournay, list; pitched battle. | |
Duty | Allegiance, fealty, tie engagement; (promise); part; function, calling; (business). |
Observance | Perform an obligation, fulfill an obligation, discharge an obligation, acquit oneself of an obligation; make good; make good one's word, make good one's promise, keep one's word, keep one's promise; redeem one's pledge; keep faith with, stand to one's engagement. |
Promise | Verb: promise; give a promise; Noun: undertake, engage; make an engagement, form an engagement; enter into an engagement, enter on an engagement; bind oneself, tie oneself, pledge oneself, commit oneself, take upon oneself; vow; swear; (affirm), give one's word, pass one's word, pledge one's word, plight one's word, give one's honor, pass one's honor, pledge one's honor, plight one's honor, give credit, pass credit, pledge credit, plight credit, give troth, pass troth, pledge troth, plight troth; betroth, plight faith. |
Engagement, preengagement; affiance; betroth, betrothal, betrothment. | |
Undertaking | Noun: undertaking; compact; adventure, venture; engagement; (promise); enterprise, emprise; pilgrimage; matter in hand; (business ); move; first move; (beginning). |
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Screenplays | Engagement ring. (Charmed; writing credit: Colman deKay) W-w-w-what I'm proposing is, um and I-I don't mean to appear indecorous, is, is, um, a, a-a-a social engagement, um, a, a, a, a-a date, if you're amenable. (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer) Top Gun rules of engagement are written for your safety and for that of your team. (Top Gun; writing credit: Ehud Yonay; Jim Cash) So how's the engagement going? (Girl, Interrupted; writing credit: James Mangold) Look: an engagement is a promise to be married. (Two Guys, a Girl and a Pizza Place; writing credit: Pat Bullard) | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Engagement (1970) Jane's Engagement Party (1926) A Western Engagement (1925) An Engagement of Convenience (1914) The Engagement Ring (1912) | |
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 | This illustration shows the Affordable Moving Surface Target Engagement technology the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and the Air Force Research Laboratory are researching. The research program's second phase is set to begin this fall at the AF. |  | The Surgeon at Work at the Rear During an Engagement. / [Winslow] Homer.Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
 | Line engraving by H.B. Hall, Jr., New York, featuring portraits of seven officers who served with Semmes in CSS Alabama and were present during her engagement with USS Kearsarge. In center is Lieutenant Richard F. Armstrong. The others are (clockwise from top): Lieutenant Arthur Sinclair, IV (or Jr.); Midshipman Eugene A. Maffitt; Midshipman Edwin M. Anderson; Master's Mate George T. Fulham; First Lieutenant (later Captain) Becket K. Howell, Marine Corps; and Acting Master Irvine S. Bulloch. Howell and Armstrong also served with Semmes in CSS Sumter.Credit: NAVY. |  | Halftone image published in "Deeds of Valor", Volume II, page 25, by the Perrien-Keydel Company, Detroit, 1907. Corporal Mackie was awarded the Medal of Honor for heroism in action on board USS Galena during her engagement with Confederate batteries at Drewry's Bluff, James River, Virginia, on 15 May 1862. This view shows him in what appears to be a Grand Army of the Republic Uniform, circa 1900.Credit: NAVY. |
 | Just before the opening of the engagement, El Pozo.Credit: Library of Congress. |  | "She pretended to eat a little of the furmity with the leaden spoon." / R. Barnes. An engagement in the oyster war on the Chesapeake / / from a sketch by F. Cresson Schell.Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | The surgeon at work at the rear during an engagement / Homer.Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Engagement between the Wasp and Frolic (a running fight).Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Battle of Bentonville, engagement on the right.Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Hospital attendants - collecting the wounded after the engagement - within our lines near Hatchers run.Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| Author | Quotation |
Oscar Wilde | I know, of course, how important it is not to keep a business engagement, if one wants to retain any sense of the beauty of life. |
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John Locke | 1690 | Nothing can make any man so, but his actually entering into it by positive engagement, and express promise and compact. (Second Treatise of Government) |
Treaty of Versailles | 1919 | No such treaty or international engagement shall be binding until so registered. (reference) |
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Emma | Austen, Jane | It must have been from attachment only, that she could be led to form the engagement. |
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Health | This approach facilitates patients' engagement in treatment and systematically aids them in gaining substantial periods of cocaine abstinence. (references) | |
Individual factors related to engagement and retention include motivation to change drug-using behavior, degree of support from family and friends, and whether there is pressure to stay in treatment from the criminal justice system, child protection services, employers, or the family. (references) | ||
Although these effectiveness rates hold in general, individual treatment outcomes depend on the extent and nature of the patient's presenting problems, the appropriateness of the treatment components and related services used to address those problems, and the degree of active engagement of the patient in the treatment process. (references) | ||
Business | A systematic, "top-to-down" engagement is one appropriate course of action. (references) | |
Norway's engagement in Kosovo in 2001 placed a heavy burden on Norwegian defense resources. (references) | ||
Another option is to wear silver rings to mark the engagement and replace them by gold rings at the wedding. (references) | ||
Economic History | Australia | The Howard government strongly supports U.S. engagement in the Asia-Pacific region. (references) |
Denmark | The funds' total engagement in a project usually will not exceed 25% of the total investment. (references) | |
Kazakhstan | The U.S. Central Command conducts 30 military-to-military engagement events every year in Kazakhstan. (references) | |
Human Rights | Jamaica | Following an internal inquiry, the JDF dismissed three soldiers for violating JDF rules of engagement. (references) |
Yemen | The YIDD's objective for creating the group was to create a mechanism that would promote democratic participation and government-civil society engagement. (references) | |
Dominican Republic | For example, new recruits fire only one round of ammunition during training, and there is no coherent policy on the use of deadly force or rules of engagement by the police. (references) | |
Political Economy | Switzerland | The U.S. Government welcomes the Swiss government's growing international engagement. (references) |
Ukraine | The U.S. pursued a broad engagement with Ukraine across all fields and at all levels. (references) | |
Ireland | Fianna Fail supports close U.S.-Irish relations, as well as full engagement in the EU. The Fianna Fail leader is Bertie Ahern, who has been Prime Minister since 1997. (references) | |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | GUNPOWDER, n. An agency employed by civilized nations for the settlement of disputes which might become troublesome if left unadjusted. By most writers the invention of gunpowder is ascribed to the Chinese, but not upon very convincing evidence. Milton says it was invented by the devil to dispel angels with, and this opinion seems to derive some support from the scarcity of angels. Moreover, it has the hearty concurrence of the Hon. James Wilson, Secretary of Agriculture. Secretary Wilson became interested in gunpowder through an event that occurred on the Government experimental farm in the District of Columbia. One day, several years ago, a rogue imperfectly reverent of the Secretary's profound attainments and personal character presented him with a sack of gunpowder, representing it as the sed of the Flashawful flabbergastor, a Patagonian cereal of great commercial value, admirably adapted to this climate. The good Secretary was instructed to spill it along in a furrow and afterward inhume it with soil. This he at once proceeded to do, and had made a continuous line of it all the way across a ten-acre field, when he was made to look backward by a shout from the generous donor, who at once dropped a lighted match into the furrow at the starting-point. Contact with the earth had somewhat dampened the powder, but the startled functionary saw himself pursued by a tall moving pillar of fire and smoke and fierce evolution. He stood for a moment paralyzed and speechless, then he recollected an engagement and, dropping all, absented himself thence with such surprising celerity that to the eyes of spectators along the route selected he appeared like a long, dim streak prolonging itself with inconceivable rapidity through seven villages, and audibly refusing to be comforted. "Great Scott! what is that?" cried a surveyor's chainman, shading his eyes and gazing at the fading line of agriculturist which bisected his visible horizon. "That," said the surveyor, carelessly glancing at the phenomenon and again centering his attention upon his instrument, "is the Meridian of Washington." H |
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| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Bob Graham | That's not the definition of what engagement with Iraq would mean from the standpoint of most of our military. Fighting a war inside a city like Baghdad is not going to be a cakewalk and would probably entail significant exposure to casualties. |
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| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
George Bush | 1989-1993 | We need a new engagement, too, between the Executive and the Congress. |
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| "Engagement" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 99.75% of the time. "Engagement" is used about 1,199 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 99.75% | 1,196 | 6,471 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.25% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Total | 100.00% | 1,199 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "engagement": break off an engagement ♦ broken engagement ♦ cease engagement ♦ engagement control ♦ engagement ring ♦ fighter engagement zone ♦ gear tooth engagement ♦ general engagement ♦ meeting engagement ♦ missile engagement zone ♦ naval engagement ♦ rules of engagement ♦ stand to one's engagement ♦ throw into engagement ♦ weapon engagement zone ♦ without engagement ♦ wriggle out of an engagement. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "engagement": engagement-ring, engagement-rings. | |
Ending with "engagement": re-engagement. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
engagement ring | 13,084 |
engagement | 599 |
engagement gift | 337 |
engagement party | 302 |
engagement ring design | 291 |
engagement ring setting | 279 |
engagement announcement | 246 |
engagement ring unique | 132 |
engagement invitation | 123 |
power of full engagement | 123 |
engagement ring designer | 121 |
engagement idea | 104 |
diamond engagement | 92 |
engagement photo | 82 |
rule of engagement | 78 |
engagement party invitation | 77 |
engagement picture | 74 |
engagement card | 71 |
engagement band | 69 |
engagement poem | 68 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "engagement"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | zotim (assurance, commitment, obligation, pledge, vow), veprim (act, action, activity, agency, deed, doing, fact, motion, move, movement, operation, play, procedure, proceeding, reaction, step, transaction, turn), takim (appointment, assignation, contact, encounter, gathering, interview, meet, meeting, rendezvous, reunion, tryst), punësi (employment, work), punë (affair, affairs, appointment, avocation, berth, business, concern, concernment, deed, doing, duty, employ, function, job, labor, labour, make, making, metier, movement, occupation, office, operation, practice, question, service, shebang, slot, task, task-work, thing, work), premtim (carrot, commitment, faith, parole, pledge, plight, promise, seal, undertaking, word), luftim (action, battle, combat, correction, fight, fighting, set to, skirmish, strife, warfare), fejesë (affiance, betrothal, contract, espousal), betejë (battle, combat, fight, fighting, warfare), angazhim (commitment, obligation, recognizance, recruitment, vow). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | موعد (appointment, date, rendezvous, time), معركة (action, battle, clash, combat, conflict, encounter, fighting, fray), وعد (assurance, pledge, plight, promise, troth, word), تعهد (assurance, assure, bind, bond, care, commit oneself, commitment, contract, engage, guardianship, mind, nurse, obligation, pledge, plight, promise, protection, stipulate, undertake, undertaking, warrant), تعشق (mate), عمل (act, action, aggravation, berth, business, deed, elaborate, employment, fag, feat, function, gird on, job, labor, labour, making, occupation, place, pursuit, racket, see, situation, task, work), عقد (act, agreement, bead, cast, charter, compact, complicate, conclude, congeal, contract, convene, convention, covenant, decade, deed, draw, embarrass, entangle, hitch, hold, indent, instrument, knitting, knot, lease, muckrake, muddy, pact, perplex, promise, ravel, vault, vaulting, writing), خطوبة, خطبة خطوبة (espousal), إرتباط (attachment, connection, connexion, correlation, joining, liaison), إشتباك (clash, fisticuffs). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | сражение (action, combat), работа (affair, avocation, berth, billet, business, char, concern, dealings, do, employ, employment, function, job, labor, labour, lay, line, matter, occasions, occupation, operation, part, performance, place, ploy, proceedings, proposition, run, running, service, shebang, shop, show, situation, thing, undertaking, work, working, workmanship), годеж (betrothal, contract, plight), включване (embodiment, inclusion, insertion, make, reception), обещание (assurance, faith, pledge, promise, undertaking, word), насрочена среща, наемане (hire, lease, tenancy), зацепване (gearing, mesh), задължение (bond, call, char, charge, commitment, committal, duty, guaranty, job, liability, obligation, office, onus, place, recognizance, responsibility, tie), ангажимент (obligation), покана (bid, bidding, call, dare, invitation, invitation card, invite). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 订婚, 訂婚 , 約會 (appointment), 婚約 (wedding contract). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | zasnoubení (betrothal), zaneprázdnìní, závazek (bond, commitment, liability, obligation, pledge, recognizance, undertaking), ujednání (concord), střetnutí (encounter), schùzka (appointment, date, meeting, rendezvous, reunion, tryst), boj (action, combat, fight, struggle), bitva (action, battle, encounter, fray), úmluva (agreement, appointment, convention, covenant, settlement, stipulation). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | tilkobling (attachment, docking, hitch, hitching, linkage, locking), gear i indgreb (gear mesh, gear tooth engagement, mesh, mesh of teeth), forpligtelse (commitment, obligation, undertaking), forlovelse (betrothal), antagelse (acceptance, assumption, enlistment), ansaettelse (enlistment, establishment). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | engagement (betrothal), verplichting (commitment, duty, obligation, undertaking), verloving (betrothal), verbintenis (accommodation, accord, agreement, commitment, contract, obligation, undertaking), tandaangrijping (gear mesh, gear tooth engagement, mesh, mesh of teeth), inschakeling (activation, arming, locking), ineengrijping (gear mesh, gear tooth engagement, mesh, mesh of teeth), ineengrijpen (be engaged, be in mesh, engage, gear mesh, gear tooth engagement, mesh, mesh of teeth), indienstneming (enlistment). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | مشغولیت (Avocation), نامزدی (Bespoke, Betrothal, Candidacy, Troth, Tryst), اشتغال (Busybody, Office, Preoccupation). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | ryntö (gear mesh, gear tooth engagement, mesh, mesh of teeth), hammaskosketus (gear mesh, gear tooth engagement, mesh, mesh of teeth). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | engagement (entrusting), fiançailles, enclenchement. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | verlobung (affiance, betrothal, betrothment, espousal), Einstellung (abandonment, abeyance, accommodation, adjusting, adjustment, aiming, alignment, attitude, cessation, discontinuation, employment, enlistment, fit, fitting, focusing, job placement, justification, modulation, orientation, outlook, placement, reading, recruiting, recruitment, registration, setting, sight, stabilization, stance, stand, stopping, suspension, tuning), verpflichtung (bond, booking, commitment, committal, debt, duty, engaging, enlistment, incumbency, liability, obligation, responsibility, signing on, signing up, undertaking). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | σύμπλεξη (clutching, coupling, interlocking, locking). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | ת אים (formal betrothal, marriage contract, wedding agreement), ש"וך (betrothal, match, matchmaking), פעולת קרב, עסוק (business, busy, employment, engaged, job, occupation, occupied, pursuit, walks of life), ארושין, ארוסין (betrothal), ארוסים, "תעסקות (bout, occupation, occupying oneself in), "עסק" (employment). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | kötelezettség (bond, commitment, encumbrance, liability, obligation, ought, responsibility, tax, tie, undertaking), eljegyzés (affiance, betrothal, contract, espousal), ütközet (action, battle, combat, fight, operation). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Icelandic | trúlofun (betrothal). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | pertunangan (affiance, betrothal), perjanjian (covenant, pact, treaty). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | assunzione (accession, admission, assumption, enlistment, recruitment). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 婚約 (betrothal). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | ないやく (private contract, secret treaty, tacit understanding), しょうへい (employment, hiring, officers and men, peace, sentry, tranquility, wounded soldier), しょよう (beginning of an epoch, business, initial period, necessary, needed, required), ふうふやくそく (betrothal, marriage contract), かっせ" (battle, faucet, hot line, live wire, secant, valve), かいせ" (battle, cargo vessel, circuit, convolution, game, itch, lighter, line, mange, match, naval battle, outbreak of war, re-election, revolution, rotation, scabies, starting a war), ""やく (betrothal), エンゲージメント , え" " (marriage proposal, platform, rostrum, round shot, smoke bomb). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 교 . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | naishtey (betrothal, engage, engaged, espousal, pledge), goaill greme (engaged), gialdynys (grant, hopefulness, promise), failley (brief, employ, employment, engage, hire), currym (appointment, assignment, benefice, business, care, custody, duty, funeral, guardianship, obligation, portfolio, post, responibility, task, trust). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Norwegian | forlovelse (betrothal). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Papiamen | kompromiso (betrothal). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | engagementay obrigação (bond, bond certificate, burden, business, commitment, debenture, debenture bond, debenture stock, debt security, devoir, due, duty, function, incumbency, indebtedness, investment bond, job, labor, labour, loan stock debenture, must, obligation, office, onus, ought, promissory, responsibility, shall, trust, undertaking, would), compromisso (accommodation, affiance, appointment, commitment, committal, compromise, indecency, obligation, plight, promise, undertaking). (various references) treabã (affair, affairs, business, concern, employment, job, matter, occasion, palaver, pidgin, proposition, task, work), promisiune (faith, promise, undertaking, word), ocupaţie (activity, business, duty, employment, holding, job, metier, occupation, profession, situation, trade, work), luptã (action, affair, battle, combat, contest, efforts, encounter, fight, fighting, match, mix up, quarrel, Stour, strife, striving, struggle, war, warfare), logodnã (affiance, betrothal, espousal), invitaţie (bidding, call, date, invitation), bãtãlie (action, battle, combat, field, fight, show), angajare (enrolment), angajament (bond, commitment, instruction, plight, recognizance, undertaking), ambreiaj (clutch pedal), întâlnire (appointment, assignation, contest, date, event, fight, joint, meet, meeting, rendezvous, tryst). (various references) стычка (encounter, hassle, passage at arms, passage of arms, skirmish), свидание (appointment, date, rendezvous, tryst), включение (comprehension, cut-in, energization, inclusion, insertion), обязательство (bond, commitment, committal, liability, obligation, obligations, plight, promis, promissory, recognizance, undertaking), зацепление (gearing, mesh), занятие (business, calling, class, exercise, job, metier, occupancy, occupation, ploy, shebang, trade, walk of life, walks of life), бой (action, battle, combat, fight, fighting, scuffle, struggle), помолвка (betrothal), дело (act, affair, affairs, business, business deal, case, cause, deal, deed, doing, dossier, file, matter, part, proposition, shebang, thing, transaction, work). (various references) veridba (betrothal, troth), verenički (betrothed), angažovanje (booking), angažman. (various references) obligación (bond, commitment, debenture, duty, liability, long term bond, must, obligation, privity, subjection, trust, undertaking), contratación (booking, enlistment, recruiting), compromiso (accommodation, agreement, commitment, committal, compromise, covenant, date, difficulty, meet, meeting, obligation, pledge, undertaking). (various references) förlovning (betrothal), anställning (appointment, berth, employment, job, occupation, place, position). (various references) ส าวะที่กำลังทำงานอยู่, การสู้รบ (combat), การสัญญา, การหมั้น, งานระยะสั้น. (various references) yükümlülük (charge, compulsion, duty, encumbrance, function, impost, incumbency, liability, obligation, onus, ought, responsibility), uğraş (avocation, employment, endeavor, endeavour, exertion, occupation, profession, resource, struggle, toil, tug, wrestle), taahhüt (affidavit, commitment, committal, pledge, stipulation, undertaking), sorumluluk (accountability, baby, blame, buck, burden, charge, control, custody, encumbrance, liability, load, office, onus, pidgin, place, responsibility, trust), sözleşme (agreement, articles, charter, compact, contract, contractual, covenant, indenture, oral contract, pact), söz (assurance, commitment, committal, expression, faith, pledge, plight, promise, say, saying, sentence, spiel, statement, talk, term, upon my word, verbalism, vocable, voice, word, wordy), randevu (appointment, assignation, date, rendezvous, tryst), nişanlanma (betrothal, marriage contract), nişan (affiance, badge, betrothal, brand, butt, decoration, device, ensign, espousal, gong, Mark, medal, order, plume, sign, target), birbirine geçme (mesh), çarpışma (action, bump, clash, collision, combat, conflict, encounter, foul, impact, rencontre, scrimmage, scrum, scrummage, set to, skirmish, smash, smash up). (various references) заняття (affair, affairs, career, lesson, metier, occupation, profession, pursuit, school, trade, walk, work), запрошення (bid, calling, card, invitation, invite), діло (act, affair, cause, deed, employ, work). (various references) sự r ng buộc, sự hứa hẹn, sự cam kết (sponsion), sự ước hẹn, cuộc đánh nhau (fighting, fray, scrap, tussle). (various references) ymrwymiad, cyhoeddiad (announcement, appointment, publication). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | certamen, fides, sponsalia. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "engagement": engagements. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "engagement": disengagement, nonengagement, reengagement. (additional references) | |
Words containing "engagement": disengagements, nonengagements, reengagements. (additional references) | |
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"Engagement" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: engageent, engagment, nagement. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "engagement" (pronounced engā"jmunt) |
| 8 | -n g ā" j m u n t | disengagement. |
| 5 | -j m u n t | acknowledgement, acknowledgment, arrangement, discouragement, encouragement, enlargement, estrangement, infringement, judgement, judgment, management, micromanagement, misjudgment, mismanagement, nonmanagement, prejudgment, rearrangement. |
| 4 | -m u n t | abandonment, abatement, accompaniment, accomplishment, accouterment, achievement, adamant, adjournment, adjustment, adornment, advancement, advertisement, advisement, aggrandizement, agreement, ailment, alignment, allotment, amazement, amendment, amusement, announcement, annulment, antigovernment, apartment, appeasement, appointment, apportionment, argument, armament, arraignment, assessment, assignment, assortment, astonishment, atonement, attachment, attainment, banishment, basement, battlement, bemusement, bereavement, betterment, bewilderment, blandishment, bombardment, claimant, Clement, commandment, commencement, commitment, compartment, complement, comportment, concealment, condiment, confinement, consignment, containment, contentment, copayment, curtailment, debarment, debasement, deferment, department, deployment, deportment, derailment, detachment, determent, detriment, development, diminishment, disagreement, disappointment, disarmament, disbarment, disbursement, discernment, disenchantment, disenfranchisement, disestablishment, disgruntlement, disillusionment, disinvestment, dismantlement, dismemberment, displacement, divestment, dormant, easement, element, embankment, embarrassment, embayment, embellishment, embezzlement, embodiment, emplacement, employment, empowerment, enactment, encampment, enchantment, encirclement, encroachment, endangerment, endearment, endorsement, endowment, enforcement, enhancement, enjoyment, enlightenment, enlistment, enrichment, enrollment, enslavement, entanglement, entertainment, enticement, entitlement, entombment, entrapment, entrenchment, environment, equipment, escapement, escarpment, establishment, excitement, excrement, experiment, extinguishment, figment, filament, formant, fragment, fulfillment, garment, garnishment, government, harassment, impairment, impeachment, impediment, implement, impoundment, impoverishment, impressment, imprisonment, improvement, incitement, inclement, increment, indictment, inducement, informant, infotainment, installment, instrument, integument, internment, intersegment, investment, involvement, ligament, maltreatment, measurement, misgovernment, misstatement, mistreatment, moment, monument, movement, nongovernment, nonpayment, nourishment, ointment, ornament, orpiment, outplacement, overpayment, overstatement, parchment, parliament, pavement, payment, pigment, placement, postponement, postretirement, predicament, prepayment, presentment, procurement, pronouncement, punishment, puzzlement, readjustment, realignment, reappointment, reapportionment, rearmament, reassessment, reassignment, recruitment, redeployment, redevelopment, reemployment, reenactment, refinement, refreshment, refurbishment, regiment, reimbursement, reinforcement, reinstatement, reinvestment, repayment, replacement, replenishment, requirement, resentment, resettlement, restatement, retirement, retrenchment, rudiment, sacrament, sediment, segment, sentiment, settlement, shipment, statement, supplement, temperament, tenement, testament, tournament, treatment, underdevelopment, underemployment, undergarment, underpayment, understatement, unemployment, vehement, wonderment. |
| 3 | -u n t | aberrant, abhorrent, abortifacient, absent, absorbent, abstinent, abundant, accelerant, accident, accountant, adherent, adjacent, adjutant, adolescent, afferent, affiant, affluent, agent, ambient, ambivalent, ancient, antecedent, antidepressant, antioxidant, apparent, applicant, ardent, argent, arrant, arrogant, ascendant, aspirant, assailant, assistant, astringent, attendant, belligerent, beneficent, benevolent, blatant, brilliant, buoyant, celebrant, clairvoyant, client, coefficient, cogent, cognizant, coherent, coincident, combatant, competent, complacent, complainant, complaisant, compliant, component, concomitant, concurrent, confident, confluent, consequent, consistent, consonant, constant, constituent, consultant, contaminant, contestant, continent, contingent, convalescent, convenient, convent, convergent, conversant, coolant, corespondent, cormorant, correspondent, Courant, covenant, Crescent, crosscurrent, current, decadent, decedent, decent, declarant, decongestant, defendant, defiant, deficient, defoliant, delinquent, deodorant, dependent, depressant, descendant, descendent, despondent, detergent, determinant, deterrent, deviant, different, diligent, discordant, disinfectant, disobedient, dispersant, dissident, dissonant, distant, divalent, divergent, docent, dominant, ebullient, efferent, effervescent, efficient, effluent, elegant, elephant, eloquent, emergent, emigrant, eminent, entrant, equivalent, errant, esculent, evanescent, evident, excellent, exigent, existent, exorbitant, expectant, expectorant, expedient, exponent, extant, extravagant, exuberant, exultant, Fabricant, fervent, flagrant, flamboyant, flatulent, flippant, fluent, fluorescent, fragrant, fraudulent, frequent, gallant, giant, grandiloquent, grandparent, hesitant, hydrant, ignorant, immanent, immigrant, imminent, impatient, impertinent, important, impotent, imprudent, inadvertent, incandescent, incessant, incident, incipient, incoherent, incompetent, inconsistent, incontinent, inconvenient, incumbent, indecent, independent, indifferent, indigent, indignant, indolent, indulgent, inefficient, infant, infrequent, ingredient, inhabitant, inhalant, inherent, innocent, inpatient, insignificant, insistent, insolent, insolvent, instant, insufficient, insurgent, intelligent, intercurrent, interdependent, intermittent, intolerant, intransigent, invariant, iridescent, irrelevant, irreverent, irritant, itinerant, jubilant, latent, leant, lenient, lieutenant, litigant, lubricant, lucent, luminescent, luxuriant, magnificent, malevolent, malignant, merchant, migrant, militant, miscreant, monovalent, mordant, mutant, nascent, negligent, noncombatant, nonexistent, nonresident, nonviolent, nutrient, obedient, observant, obsolescent, occupant, odorant, omnipotent, omnipresent, omniscient, operant, opponent, opulent, outpatient, overconfident, oxidant, pageant, parent, participant, patent, patient, peasant, penchant, pendant, penitent, pennant, percipient, permanent, persistent, pertinent, petulant, pheasant, piquant, pleasant, pliant, poignant, pollutant, potent, preadolescent, precedent, predominant, preeminent, pregnant, prescient, present, prevalent, proficient, prominent, propellant, proponent, protestant, provident, prudent, prurient, pungent, pursuant, quadrant, quiescent, quotient, radiant, rampant, reagent, recalcitrant, recent, recipient, recombinant, recurrent, redundant, refrigerant, Regent, registrant, relevant, reliant, reluctant, reminiscent, remnant, repellent, repentant, repugnant, resident, resilient, resistant, resonant, resplendent, respondent, resultant, resurgent, retardant, reticent, reverent, rodent, ruminant, salient, seafront, sealant, semipermanent, Sequent, sergeant, serpent, servant, significant, silent, solvent, somnolent, stagnant, stimulant, strident, stringent, student, subcontinent, subsequent, subservient, succulent, sufficient, supergiant, superintendent, supplicant, suppressant, surfactant, talent, tangent, tenant, tetravalent, tolerant, torrent, transcendent, transient, translucent, transparent, trenchant, trident, triumphant, truant, truculent, tumescent, turbulent, tyrant, undercurrent, unimportant, unpleasant, unrepentant, urgent, vacant, vagrant, valiant, variant, verdant, vibrant, vigilant, violent, virulent, warrant. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-e-e-g-g-m-n-n-t" | |
-3 letters: gatemen, teenage. | |
-4 letters: engage, gagmen, gamete, gannet, magnet, manege, menage, metage, neaten, negate, tegmen. | |
-5 letters: agene, agent, ament, anent, eaten, enate, enema, genet, mange, meant, menta, tenge. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-e-e-g-g-m-n-n-t" | |
+1 letter: engagements. | |
+2 letters: reengagement. | |
+3 letters: disengagement, nonengagement, reengagements. | |
+4 letters: disengagements, nonengagements. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)45 6E 67 61 67 65 6D 65 6E 74 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references). -. --. .- --. . -- . -. - |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000101 01101110 01100111 01100001 01100111 01100101 01101101 01100101 01101110 01110100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)E n g a g e m e n t |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0045 006E 0067 0061 0067 0065 006D 0065 006E 0074 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)39807367737179718086 |
