Dictionary Entry
engagement
engagement is a 10-letter English word with 12 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: The act of engaging, pledging, enlisting, occupying, or entering into contest. Face value is 14 in Scrabble and 19 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
10 letters · Scrabble 14 · Words With Friends 19 · 12 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
The act of engaging, pledging, enlisting, occupying, or entering into contest.
- 2noun
The state of being engaged, pledged or occupied; specif., a pledge to take some one as husband or wife.
- 3noun
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.
- 4noun
An action; a fight; a battle.
- 5noun
The state of being in gear; as, one part of a clutch is brought into engagement with the other part.
- 6noun
employment for performers or performing groups that lasts for a limited period of time
"the play had bookings throughout the summer"
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- 7noun
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"
- 8noun
the act of giving someone a job
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- 9noun
the act of sharing in the activities of a group
"the teacher tried to increase his students' engagement in class activities"
- 10noun
a mutual promise to marry
- 11noun
contact by fitting together
"the engagement of the clutch"
"the meshing of gears"
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- 12noun
a meeting arranged in advance
"she asked how to avoid kissing at the end of a date"
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