Engage

Definitions: Engage

Engage

Verb

1. Carry out or participate in an activity; be involved in; "She pursued many activities"; "They engaged in a discussion".

2. Engage or engross wholly; "Her interest in butterflies absorbs her completely".

3. Engage or hire for work; "They hired two new secretaries in the department"; "How many people has she employed?".

4. As to represent; of legal counsel; "I'm retaining a lawyer".

5. Give to, in marriage.

6. Get caught; as of gears.

7. As of wars, battles, or campaigns; "Napoleon and Hitler waged war against all of Europe".

8. As of aid, help, services, or support.

9. Engage in a commercial transaction; "We took an apartment on a quiet street"; "Let's rent a car"; "Shall we take a guide in Rome?".

10. : keep engaged; "engaged the gears".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "engage" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1050. (references)

Mechanical Engineering

Military & Defense

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Engage

Affirmation

As God is my witness, I must say, indeed, i' faith, let me tell you, why, give me leave to say, marry, you may be sure, I'd have you to know; upon my word, upon my honor; by my troth, egad, I assure you; by jingo, by Jove, by George; troth, seriously, sadly; in sadness, in sober sadness, in truth, in earnest; of a truth, truly, perdy, in all conscience, upon oath; be assured; (belief); yes; (assent); I'll warrant, I'll warrant you, I'll engage, I'll answer for it, I'll be bound, I'll venture to say, I'll take my oath; in fact, forsooth, joking apart; so help me God; not to mince the matter.

Attention

Catch the eye, strike the eye; attract notice; catch the attention, awaken the attention, wake the attention, invite the attention, solicit the attention, attract the attention, claim the attention excite the attention, engage the attention, occupy the attention, strike the attention, arrest the attention, fix the attention, engross the attention, absorb the attention, rivet the attention, catch the mind, awaken the mind, wake the mind, invite the mind, solicit the mind, attract the mind, claim the mind excite the mind, engage the mind, occupy the mind, strike the mind, arrest the mind, fix the mind, engross the mind, absorb the mind, rivet the mind, catch the thoughts, awaken the thoughts, wake the thoughts, invite the thoughts, solicit the thoughts, attract the thoughts, claim the thoughts excite the thoughts, engage the thoughts, occupy the thoughts, strike the thoughts, arrest the thoughts, fix the thoughts, engross the thoughts, absorb the thoughts, rivet the thoughts; be present to the mind, be uppermost in the mind.

Commission

Put in commission, accredit, engage, hire, bespeak, appoint, name, nominate, return, ordain; install, induct, inaugurate, swear in, invest, crown; enroll, enlist; give power of attorney to.

Compact

Verb: contract, covenant, agree for; engage; (promise).

Contention

Contend; with, grapple with, engage with, close with, buckle with, bandy with, try conclusions with, have a brush; n. with, tilt with; encounter, fall foul of, pitch into, clapperclaw, run a tilt at; oppose; reluct.

Conversation

Verb: talk together, converse, confabulate; hold on a conversation, carry on a conversation, join in a conversation, engage in a conversation; put in a word; shine in conversation; bandy words; parley; palaver; chat, gossip, tattle; prate; (loquacity); powwow.

Danger

Adventure, risk, hazard, venture, stake, set at hazard; run the gauntlet; (dare); engage in a forlorn hope.

Earliness

Verb: be early; Adjective:, be beforehand; adVerb: keep time, take time by the forelock, anticipate, forestall; have the start, gain the start; steal a march upon; gain time, draw on futurity; bespeak, secure, engage, preengage.

Love

Excite love; win the heart, gain the heart, win the affections, gain the affections, secure the love, engage the affections; take the fancy of have a place in the heart, wind round the heart; attract, attach, endear, charm, fascinate, captivate, bewitch, seduce, enamor, enrapture, turn the head.

Motive

Persuade; prevail with, prevail upon; overcome, carry; bring round to one's senses, bring to one's senses; draw over, win over, gain over, come over, talk over; procure, enlist, engage; invite, court.

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.

Pursuit

Verb: pursue, prosecute, follow; run after, make after, be after, hunt after, prowl after; shadow; carry on; (do); engage in; (undertake); set about; (begin); endeavor; court; (request) seek; (search); aim at; (intention); follow the trail; (trace); fish for; (experiment); press on; (haste); run a race; (velocity).

Undertaking

Verb: undertake; engage in, embark in; launch into, plunge into; volunteer; apprentice oneself to; engage; (promise); contract; take upon oneself, take upon one's shoulders; devote oneself to; (determination).

Warfare

Verb: arm; raise troops, mobilize troops; raise up in arms; take up the cudgels; take up arms, fly to arms, appeal to arms, fly to the sword; draw the sword, unsheathe the sword; dig up the hatchet, dig up the tomahawk; go to war, wage war, 'let slip the dogs of war'; cry havoc; kindle the torch of war, light the torch of war; raise one's banner, raise the fire cross; hoist the black flag; throw away, fling away the scabbard; enroll, enlist; take the field; take the law into one's own hands; do battle, give battle, join battle, engage in battle, go to battle; flesh one's sword; set to, fall to, engage, measure swords with, draw the trigger, cross swords; come to blows, come to close quarters; fight; combat; contend; battle with, break a lance with.

Crosswords: Engage

French (engages).

Move as close as you can and engage those Star Destroyers at point blank range! (Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi; writing credit: George Lucas; Lawrence Kasdan)

Anyway, I'm applying because it's an outstanding university, not because the students engage in the rectal transport of steel rods. (Is It College Yet?; writing credit: Glenn Eichler; Peggy Nicoll)

Whatever you do, do not engage Silvio in conversation. (The Sopranos; writing credit: Isabel Clara-Simo; Ram�n De Espa�a)

Under no circumstances are you to engage the enemy! (Rambo: First Blood Part II; writing credit: Kevin Jarre; Sylvester Stallone)

Engage your mandibles and kiss me! (Futurama; writing credit: Lance Smith; Carl Colpaert)

I refuse to engage in an intellectual battle with an unarmed man. (references; author: unknown)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

References

• Engage, Inc.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

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Books

• 101 Ways to Make Meetings Active: Surefire Ideas to Engage Your Group (reference)

• Activators: Activity Structures to Engage Student's Thinking Before Instruction (reference)

• Engage the Enemy More Closely: The Royal Navy in the Second World War (reference)

• How To Get Buy-In For New Ideas -- 12 Important Steps To Engage Others [DOWNLOAD: PDF] (reference)

• Improvisation, Inc.: Harnessing Spontaneity to Engage People and Groups (reference)

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Music

• Engage (reference)

• Killswitch Engage (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Tom Furrer, the high school teacher, began the United Anglers of Case Grande as a way to actively engage students. Tom Furrer and another volunteer work to clean parts of the creek.Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

An F-16 jet fighter, 35 fighter Squadron, from Kunsan Air Base, Korea, takes off from Tsuiki AB, Japan, to engage Japanese jet fighters in an aerial training exercise in support of Keen Sword 03 on Nov. 12, 2002. Keen Sword is a bilateral defense exercis.

Flown by pilots from the German Air Force's 73rd Fighter Squadron, Soviet built MiG-29 Fulcrums, stationed at Laage Air Base, Germany, lineup with F-16 Fighting Falcons from the 555th Fighter Squadron, Aviano AB, Italy. The two teams are about to engage i.

After donning the appropriate chemical protective gear, Airman 1st Class Vincent Ouchana and Senior Airman Efrain Espinoza, representing Air Force Space Command, fire downrange and engage pop-up targets during the combat weapons event at Camp Bullis, Texa.

Le Docteur -Vous avez besoin de prendre l'air, je vous engage a offrir votre mediation aux puissances occidentales. / Cham [i.e. Amédée Noé].Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Fort Knox, Kentucky. Armored force personnel. Litter bearers go through their routine as the armored force outfit to which they belong engage in war exercises at Fort Knox, Kentucky.Credit: Library of Congress.

House in Georgetown, New Mexico. Ghost gold mining town. There are two or three families left in this once wealthy town who now engage in small farming.Credit: Library of Congress.

The Olympics where men & women of all nations engage in peaceful competition--Olympics 1976 / Romare Bearden.Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Fourthly, But if the unlawful acts done by the magistrate be maintained (by the power he has got), and the remedy which is due by law, be by the same power obstructed; yet the right of resisting, even in such manifest acts of tyranny, will not suddenly, or on slight occasions, disturb the government: for if it reach no farther than some private men's cases, though they have a right to defend themselves, and to recover by force what by unlawful force is taken from them; yet the right to do so will not easily engage them in a contest, wherein they are sure to perish; it being as impossible for one, or a few oppressed men to disturb the government, where the body of the people do not think themselves concerned in it, as for a raving mad-man, or heady malcontent to overturn a well settled state; the people being as little apt to follow the one, as the other. (Second Treatise of Government)

Clause 3: No State shall, without the Consent of Congress, lay any Duty of Tonnage, keep Troops, or Ships of War in time of Peace, enter into any Agreement or Compact with another State, or with a foreign Power, or engage in War, unless actually invaded, or in such imminent Danger as will not admit of delay. (reference)

Officers belonging to the Germany Navy and not demobilised must engage to serve till the age of forty-five, unless discharged for sufficient reasons. (reference)

Nothing in this Declaration may be interpreted as implying for any State, group or person any right to engage in any activity or to perform any act aimed at the destruction of any of the rights and freedoms set forth herein. (reference)

In McLaurin v. Oklahoma State Regents, supra, the Court, in requiring that a Negro admitted to a white graduate school be treated like all other students, again resorted to intangible considerations: "�his ability to study, to engage in discussions and exchange views with other students, and, in general, to learn his profession." (reference)

This is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism. (Delivered on the steps at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C. on August 28, 1942)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

I do not by any means engage for its being returned.

I saw Caesar and Pompey at the head of their troops, just ready to engage.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

Special effort might be needed to engage these individuals in treatment. (references)

They experience peer rejection and engage in a broad array of disruptive behaviors. (references)

Several million more adults engage in risky drinking that could lead to alcohol problems. (references)

Business

Other regulations permit employers to engage only adult foreign workers. (references)

Only firms with the appropriate trade license can engage in importation. (references)

China will permit foreign enterprises to engage in a full range of distribution services. (references)

Children

Cuba

It is illegal for a person under 17 years of age to engage in prostitution. (references)

Turkmenistan

Although some societal discrimination exists, many citizens engage in activities to assist persons with disabilities. (references)

Ghana

The practice explicitly forbids a Trokosi or Fiashidi to engage in sexual activity or contact during her atonement period. (references)

Civil Liberties

Singapore

Academics speak and publish widely, and engage in debate on social and political issues. (references)

Bhutan

Citizens may engage in peaceful assembly and association only for purposes approved by the Government. (references)

Belarus

Foreign missionaries may not engage in religious activities outside the institutions that invited them. (references)

Economic History

Croatia

Nearly all companies engage in some form of advertising. (references)

Hungary

Most large Hungarian firms engage in some form of advertising. (references)

Maldives

They are also allowed to process fish but cannot engage in fishing. (references)

Human Rights

Nigeria

By law police must provide suspects with the opportunity to engage counsel and post bail. (references)

Brazil

They are not allowed to speak or engage in physical activity, and spend the day watching television. (references)

Guatemala

MINUGUA sources suggested that the Human Rights Ombudsman's Office rejected attempts to engage it in meaningful preparations. (references)

Indigenous People

Dominica

Most Carib Indians engage in farming, fishing, and handicraft. (references)

Minorities

Burma

Rohingyas who have returned to Arakan claimed that they faced government restrictions on their ability to travel and to engage in economic activity. (references)

Liberia

It is believed that practitioners of traditional indigenous religions among the Grebo and Krahn ethnic groups concentrated in the southeastern counties most commonly engage in ritual killings. (references)

Political Economy

ALGERIA

A 1990 law permits all unions to engage in collective bargaining. (references)

JORDAN

GJFTU member unions regularly engage in collective bargaining with employers. (references)

UNITED ARAB EMIRATES

Given these goals, the bank does not have the scope to engage in independent monetary policy. (references)

Political Rights

Afghanistan

The Taliban's previous military successes did not encourage the group's leaders to engage in meaningful political dialog with opponents. (references)

Algeria

The more than 30 existing political parties represent a wide spectrum of viewpoints and engage in activities that range from holding rallies to issuing communiques. (references)

Bangladesh

All of the major parties have boycotted Parliament while in the opposition, claiming that they had little opportunity to engage in real debate on legislation and national issues. (references)

Trade

Cote D'ivoire

To use a bonded warehouse, the exporter must engage a local importer. (references)

Egypt

The law stipulates that banks can engage in all foreign exchange transactions. (references)

Romania

Commercial banks are authorized to engage in a wide range of banking functions. (references)

Travel

Netherlands

It might be necessary to engage a real estate agent (makelaar), although their fees are high. (references)

Cote D'ivoire

It is uncommon for the carjackers to engage in gratuitous violence or to commit sexual assault. (references)

Sri Lanka

Visitors to Sri Lanka intending to engage in business transactions must have Sri Lankan visas prior to entry into the country. (references)

Women

Lebanon

Thousands of foreign women, primarily from Russia and Eastern Europe, engage in prostitution. (references)

Philippines

The penalties for exploiting women for prostitution are not considered sufficient to deter those who engage in such activities. (references)

Iceland

The sale of sex for money is not illegal per se, but it is against the law for someone to engage in prostitution as his or her main source of income. (references)

Worker Rights

Saint Kitts and Nevis

Girls often engage in domestic service. (references)

Bangladesh

Some unions engage in intimidation and vandalism. (references)

Uganda

Some of the country's orphans engage in labor activities. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "engage": engage a target ♦ engage attention ♦ engage first gear ♦ engage for ♦ engage in ♦ engage in a competition ♦ engage in a discussion ♦ engage in a forlorn hope ♦ engage in a war ♦ engage in coitus ♦ engage in conversation ♦ engage in espionage ♦ engage in moonlighting ♦ engage in politics ♦ engage in sexual intercourse ♦ engage in war ♦ engage in work ♦ engage into battle ♦ engage oneself ♦ engage oneself to do smth. ♦ engage smb. as ♦ engage smb. in smth. ♦ engage smb. to do smth. ♦ engage the clutch ♦ engage with each other ♦ get engage. Additional references.

Ending with "engage": over-engage, pause-engage, pre-engage, re-engage.

Albanian

zihem me, zë (bar, begin, block out, calk, catch, caulk, clog, close, find, handle, have, hold, knead, occupy, part, plug up, seize, shut out, sound, take, tie up, voice), tërheq (allure, appeal, arrest, attract, bewitch, call attention to, capture, catch, charm, daggle, dangle, decoy, drag, draggle, draw, draw out, entice, fetch, fix, haul, heave, invite, jerk, lure, pluck, prepossess, pull, pull out, recall, retract, revoke, stretch, take back, tow, tug, web, withdraw), rezervoj (bespeak, book, earmark, hive, lay in, reserve), punoj (do, drive, employ, go, labor, labour, operate, recruit, serve, work), pajtoj (attune, bring together, moderate, propitiate, reconcile, Square), merrem me (address oneself to, engage in, follow, handle, look after, see to, settle down to), marr në punë (employ, fill), fejoj (affiance, betroth), angazhoj (book, busy, recruit, sign). (various references)

Arabic 

‏عشق (connect, dovetail, fall for, fall in love, fall in love with, falling in love, lose one's heart, love, passion), ‏شارك في النقاش, ‏شغل (activate, busy, carry out, employ, fill, hold, job, occupation, operate, pop on, power, run, switch on, task, turn on, work), ‏أثار (aggravate, arouse, awaken, bestir, burn, chafe, elicit, evoke, exacerbate, exalt, excite, fan, ferment, flurry, foment, fray, frazzle, fret, fuss, gall, get, gravel, gripe, heat, impassion, inflame, infuriate, inspire, instigate, irritate, itch, jog, jostle, kindle, madden, move, outrage, pique, remnant, rile, rouse, sour, stimulate, switch on, tease, thrill, touch off, transport, trigger, trouble, turn on, unsettle, urge, vex, whet, whip, work), ‏أعد (activate, dish, dispose, draft, dress, engross, fit, get smb. working, pass, plan, put up, ready), ‏إستخدم (employ, exercise, exploit, harness, hire, hunt, indent, involve, spend, take on, use, utilize), ‏شارك (be shared, contribute, enter, involve, join in, part, partake, participate, partner, share, share in, sit in, spare one's life, take, take part), ‏خطب فتاة (betroth, get engaged, plight one's troth), ‏نازل (alight, depressed), ‏تشابك (entanglement, foul, interlock, ravel, snarl, tangle, texture, web), ‏تعاطى عملا, ‏تعهد (assurance, assure, bind, bond, care, commit oneself, commitment, contract, engagement, guardianship, mind, nurse, obligation, pledge, plight, promise, protection, stipulate, undertake, undertaking, warrant), ‏تتعشق التروس, ‏قاتل (assassin, battle, combat, deadly, fight, killer, lethal, manslayer, murdered, murderer, murderous, vital, war), ‏لفت الانتباه (draw, grab, point, rivet, stress), ‏جذب (allure, attract, attraction, catch, charm, entice, hale, haul, magnetize, press, pull, rivet, strain, tempt). (various references)

Bulgarian 

сгодявам се (get engaged, plight one's troth), спечелвам (acquire, attach, carry off, enlist, fetch, gain, get, get the best of it, land, make, obtain, pot, profit, purchase, win, win through), гарантирам (assure, entrench, insure, intrench, safeguard, secure, underwrite, warrant), въвличам в (embroil), възбуждам (actuate, agitate, arouse, enkindle, excite, ferment, heat, inflame, irritate, key up, pique, provoke, raise, set up, stimulate, sting, stir, thrill, turn on), наемам (charter, employ, fee, hire, sign on, sign up, take on), нападам (assault, attack, do over, fall on, fall upon, infest, insult, lunge, mob, oppugn, pitch into, rabble, sail into, set about, set on, set upon, shape up, strike, strongarm, turn on, turn upon, walk into, zap), зацепвам (couple, enmesh, hitch, mesh, pitch), завладявам (carry, conquer, devour, engross, force, invade, obsess, overcome, overreach, overtake, overwhelm, prepossess, seize, take over, take possession of), запълвам (fill in, fill out, stop up, supply), задължавам (bind, call on, charge, obligate, oblige, require), ангажирам се, ангажирам (bespeak, retain, take). (various references)

Chinese 

聘請 (hire), 聘 (betrothed), 約定 (make an appointment, promise), 参与 (Engaged, Engaging, Participate, Participated, participating, Participation). (various references)

Czech

zjednat, zavázat se (covenant, undertake), zasnoubit se (betroth, get engaged), zamluvit, zaútoèit na (assault), sešlápnout, najmout (hire, rent), angažovat (be booked up, book, retain). (various references)

Danish

være i indgreb (be engaged, be in mesh, mesh), tilkoble (attach, clutch, connect, couple, throw in, to connect, to couple), indkoble (mesh). (various references)

Dutch

koppelen (clutch, connect, couple, docking, match, match-make, throw in, to close contacts, to connect, to couple, to gang, to link), ineengrijpen (be engaged, be in mesh, engagement, gear mesh, gear tooth engagement, mesh, mesh of teeth), doen ineengrijpen (mesh). (various references)

Esperanto

polemiki (engage in a controversy). (various references)

Farsi 

متعهدکردن , مجذوب کردن (Witch), نامزدکردن (Betroth, Designate, Espouse, Nominate), قول دادن (Promise, Undertake), گیردادن , گرفتن (Capture, Catch, Cease, Circle, Detract, Devest, Educe, Front, Grab, Gripe, Hold, Kindle, Nail, Obtain, Obturate, Pickup, Snatch, Take, Wed), گروگذاشتن (Pawn, Pledge), گرودادن , عهدکردن (Vow), ضامن کردن , استخدام کردن (Employ), ازپیش سفارش دادن (Bespeak), درهم انداختن , بکارگماشتن (Employ). (various references)

Finnish

olla rynnössä (be engaged, be in mesh, mesh), lomistua (be engaged, be in mesh, mesh), kytkeä (chain up, connect, connect up, couple, mesh, plug in, switch, tie put on the lead, to mate, turn on), hammastua (be engaged, be in mesh, mesh). (various references)

French

engager, s'engrener (be engaged), engagez. (various references)

German

mieten (charter, employ, hire, lease, leasing, rent, to engage, to rent), anstellen (add, approach, conduct, do, draw, employ, get up to, lean, manage, pitching, place, position, put into motion, put on, recruit, set, set about, set to work, sign up, start, start up, switch on, take on, to employ, to engage, turn on). (various references)

Greek 

συμπλέκω (clutch, connect, couple, group, splice, throw in, to connect, to couple), συμπλέκομαι (brawl, fight, scrimmage), μισθώνω (hire, rent), προσυμφωνώ (preconcert), ζεύξη (be engaged, be in mesh, bracing, interstage link, interswitch link, junction, link, mesh, trunk), ενασχολώ (ply), ενασχολούμαι (ply), εμπλοκή (be engaged, be in mesh, binding, blocking, embroilment, foul, imbroglio, interlocking, involution, involvement, jam, jamming, locking, mesh, sticking), αρραβωνιάζω (betroth). (various references)

Hebrew 

ל�"עסיק (employ, keep busy, occupy, take on). (various references)

Hungarian

eljegyez (betroth, espouse, to betroth, to engage, to espouse, to plight, to plight one's troth), lefoglal (attach, confiscate, distrain, foreclose, impound, make advances to, sequester, taken, to arrest, to book a seat, to confiscate, to distress, to embargo, to engross, to impound, to keep sy busy, to levy, to prise, to reserve, to seize, to sequester, to sequestrate, to take, took), harcba lép (get into action, get involved in combat, go into action, intervene, join battle). (various references)

Indonesian

mengupah, mempertunangi (betroth), meminang (offer, pamper), memesan tempat (book). (various references)

Italian

innestare (be inserted, clutch, connect, couple, engraft, graft, implant, insert, join, throw in, to connect, to couple, to graft), ingranare (be engaged, be in gear, be in mesh, get on, interlock, mesh, put into gear). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

エル�"ー盤 (aerogram, angel, elbow, Electone, Electra complex, electric, electric guitar, electricity, electroluminescence, electron, electronic, electronic banking, electronic cooking, electronic cottage, electronic file, electronic mail, electronic money, electronic music, electronic office, electronic sound, electronics, elegance, elegant, elegy, element, elementary, elevation, elevator, elf, elm, elocution, elven, encapsulation, enclosure, encode, encoder, encoding, encounter, encyclopedia, engagement, engagement ring, engine, engine brake, engineer, engineering, engineering plastics, enjoy, erect, erection, erogenous zone, Eroica, Eros, erotic, erotic and grotesque, erotic and grotesque nonsense, erotic production, erotica, eroticism, erotism, erotomania, Herman, Hermes, ignition key, long-playing record, LP). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

エンゲージ . (various references)

Korean 

� �� �하십시�". (various references)

Manx

naishtey (betrothal, engaged, engagement, espousal, pledge), goaill er hene y yannoo, goaill ayns laue (attempt, treat, treat ply, undertake), goaill (acceptance, affect, apprehend, apprehension, arrest, assumption, assumption of office, bring off, capture, catch, contract, contract as disease, contraction, distrain, draw off, expropriation, impound, preoccupation, reduce, seizure, take), failley (brief, employ, employment, engagement, hire). (various references)

Norwegian

engasjere, ansette (employ, hire). (various references)

Pig Latin

engageay

Portuguese

engrenar (cog, gear, hinge, interlock, mesh), engrenado (be engaged, be in mesh, engagement, mesh), engajar (hire, recruit), encarregar-se, empreender (dart, endeavor, endeavour, launch a rocket, undertake, wage), empenhar (commit, flog, Gage, hock, impawn, mortgage, pawn, pledge, plinth, to pawn, to pledge, to secure), ocupar (beset, engross, exercise, fill, occupy, take), noivar (betroth), libertação (acquittal, clear-down, clearing, clearing procedure, deliverance, delivery, discharge, disengagement, emancipation, escape, exequatur, extrinsic, freedom, liberation, release, relief, relieving, riddance), contratar (article, charter, hire, make a contract), comprometer-se (impeach). (various references)

Romanian

lua cu chirie (freight), a-şi lua obligaţia, absorbi (absorb, aspirate, captivate, engross, fascinate, imbibe, inhale, soak, sponge, suck), ambreia (come into gear, connect, couple), angaja (begin, commence, employ, hire, indent, plight, sign on, start, take), angrena (mesh, rally), antrena (coach, drill, entail, fit, induct, inveigle, involve, pace, rally, stimulate, train), ataca (affect, approach, assault, attack, fall, go at, go for, hit, mug, pelt, pirate, Raven, start, tackle, thrust), atrage (allure, appeal, attract, bespeak, call, captivate, commend, conciliate, court, decoy, draw, draw in, enamor, enamour, entice, fetch, fix, interest, inveigle, lure, magnetize, win), captiva (captivate, charm, engross, ensnare, fascinate, subjugate, win), comanda (be in command, book, charge, command, dictate, enjoin, lead, order, order about, order around, secure, tell), duce lupta cu, fi chezaş, începe o luptã, logodi (affiance, betroth), zãlogi (pledge), nãimi (hire, job), obliga (bind, coerce, compel, constrain, determine, dictate, enforce, force, make, necessitate, obligate, oblige, plight, urge), ocupa (absorb, busy, come into, conquer, do, fill, hold, indwell, make good, occupy, take), prinde (acquire, apprehend, attach, bind, book, captivate, capture, catch, catch hold of, clasp, clot, comprehend, cop, Curdle, ferret, find out, fish, fix, get hold of, grapple, grasp, grip, gripe, grow, hang, have, hit, hitch, intercept, nail, nip, overhear, pin down, reach, recruit, regain, round up, seize, set, shut, stitch, strike, succeed, tack, take, tie, work), promite (contract in, promise, shape well), reţine (arrest, bespeak, book, catch, confine, delay, detain, dock, fix, ground, hinder, hold, hold in, impede, keep, keep back, keep in, laten, learn, memorize, nota bene, refrain, remember, reserve, restrain, retain, secure, stop, take by the button, trammel, withhold), rezerva un loc, se ambreia, se angaja (commit oneself, follow, promise, sign on), se angrena (inosculate, tooth), se obliga (bind oneself, commit, oblige oneself, promise), tocmi (argue, haggle, indent), intra în luptã. (various references)

Russian 

занимать (borrow, busy, occupies, occupy, take up). (various references)

Scottish

tuarasdalaich (engage for a fee). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

angažovati (book, enlist). (various references)

Spanish

engranar (be engaged, be in mesh, catch, gear, interlock, mesh), embragar (clutch, connect, couple, throw in). (various references)

Swedish

koppla in (attach, bringing in, connect, gear, mesh). (various references)

Thai

ทำให้เริ่มทำงาน, ต่อสู้ (combat, fight, ruck, tilt), ว่าจ้าง (employ), หมั้นหมาย, มีส่วนร่วม (join in, join in with). (various references)

Turkish

tutmak (abide by, add up to, affect, Bate, be, bespeak, bind, book, catch, charter, check, choke, choke back, choke down, choke off, claw hold of, clench, clutch, cog, cohere, come to, confine, constrain, contain, cost, cramp, Favor, favour, figure out at, fish, gather, get hold of, grapple, grasp, grip, guard, hang onto, hire, hire on, hold, hold back, hold in, hold on, hold on to, hold up, inhibit, intercept, keep, keep back, keep down, keep in, keep to, occupy, play, play on, play upon, possess, redeem, remand, reserve, restrain, retain, save, seize, seize on, stanchion, stick, stick to, stifle, strangle, support, take, take up, tot up, total, uphold, withhold, work out at), söz vermek (assure, commit, covenant, give an undertaking, give one's word, guarantee, impawn, make a promise, pledge, pledge one's word, plight, promise, take the pledge, undertake), kullanmak (apply, call forth, dispose, dispose of, draw on, drive, employ, exert, exploit, handle, harness, head, lay on, make use of, operate, pilot, ply, put account, ride, roll, run, take advantage of, turn to account, use, utilize, wield), işe almak, garanti etmek (assure, guarantee, stipulate, undertake, vouch, warrant), bağlanmak (adhere, attach, be attached to, be committed, be stuck on, be tied, be wedded to, cling, conjoin, connect, fasten, hang, have down on smb., hitch, hold on, lace, Wed, yoke, yoke together), bağlamak (affiliate, assign, attach, attribute, band, bandage, belay, bend, bind, bond, brace, braid, clasp, colligate, concatenate, conjoin, connect, copulate, cord, couple, do up, enthral, enthrall, fasten, fasten up, fix, fixate, grapple, guy, hitch, hook on, hook up, infix, interconnect, interlink, interlock, inthral, join, knit, knit together, knit up, knot, lace, lace up, lash, lash down, leash, ligature, link, link up, lock, lock up, mediatize, oblige, put through, rivet, rope, settle, string, subordinate, switch to, tether, tie, tie down, tie up, truss, unite, Wed), çekmek (abide, absorb, arrest, attract, be a sufferer by, be a sufferer from, be cursed with smth., bear, bear with, captivate, carry, catch, charm, claw, conjugate, decline, drag, draw, draw off, draw on, draw out, dwindle, engross, extract, fetch, glamor, glamour, go through, go to scale at, grind, grip, haul, heave, hitch, hoist, hold, inflect, inhale, invite, last out, lug, lump, magnetize, pass through, pique, pluck, prepossess, pull, pull away, pull over, pull up, receive, record, run up, scale in, scale out, schlep, schlepp, shoot, shrink, sip, siphon, siphon off, soak, soak in, sop up, stand the racket, stretch, suck, suffer, sustain, syphon, syphon off, take, take after, take one's medicine, throw back, toss, tow, tow away, tug, turn the scale at, undergo, up with, whisk, withdraw), çarpışmaya girmek (engage in). (various references)

Ukranian 

обручитися, наймати (employ, hire, wage), зобов'язуватися (contract), замовляти (charm, charter, order), бути зайнятим (occupy). (various references)

Welsh

ymrwymo (bind oneself, engage oneself), cyflogi (engage in service, hire). (various references)

congressi, congressis, congressus, conseres, conseretur, conservi, pigneratis. (various references)

en gage. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "engage": engaged, engagement, engagements, engager, engagers, engages. (additional references)

Words ending with "engage": disengage, greengage, reengage. (additional references)

Words containing "engage": disengaged, disengagement, disengagements, disengages, greengages, nonengagement, nonengagements, reengaged, reengagement, reengagements, reengages. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Engage" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: egae, enage, engadge, engag, engare, engge, engi, engie, engobe, Enmag, entage, enwage, Henggao, igage, ingage, ingga, Neagoe, Negage, ngage, Regnbagen. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: agene.

-2 letters: agee, gaen, gage, gane, gang, gene.

-3 letters: age, ane, egg, eng, gae, gag, gan, gee, gen, nae, nag, nee.

-4 letters: ae, ag, an, en, na, ne.

+1 letter: engaged, engager, engages.

+2 letters: agreeing, engagers, gangrene, gasogene, gazogene, reengage.

+3 letters: disengage, gangrened, gangrenes, garagemen, gasogenes, gazogenes, genealogy, greengage, gregarine, reengaged, reengages, regearing, segregant.

+4 letters: congregate, degreasing, delegating, disengaged, disengages, engagement, garbagemen, gearchange, generating, greatening, greengages, gregarines, jaggedness, leaguering, leveraging, raggedness, reengaging, regelating, relegating, renegading, segregants, seignorage, vegetating.

+5 letters: bagginesses, congregated, congregates, disagreeing, emmenagogue, endangering, engagements, filagreeing, gametogenic, gatekeeping, gearchanges, genealogies, genealogist, geomagnetic, gigantesque, gingerbread, glengarries, gratineeing, megatonnage, reengraving, regathering, retargeting, segregating, segregation, seigniorage, seignorages.

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