[
US
/ɛnˈɡeɪdʒd/
]
[ UK /ɛnɡˈeɪdʒd/ ]
[ UK /ɛnɡˈeɪdʒd/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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(of facilities such as telephones or lavatories) unavailable for use by anyone else or indicating unavailability; (`engaged' is a British term for a busy telephone line)
receptionists' telephones are always engaged
her line is busy
kept getting a busy signal
the lavatory is in use -
having services contracted for
the carpenter engaged (or employed) for the job is sick -
involved in military hostilities
the desperately engaged ships continued the fight -
having ones attention or mind or energy engaged
she keeps herself fully occupied with volunteer activities
deeply engaged in conversation -
built against or attached to a wall
engaged columns -
(used of toothed parts or gears) interlocked and interacting
the gears are engaged
meshed gears
intermeshed twin rotors - reserved in advance
How To Use engaged In A Sentence
- Rules exist to be violated, so that the ‘bastard’ may be more violently characterized and the audience engaged in revengeful fury.
- He is engaged in a bitter struggle with his rival to get control of the company.
- “And now, Sir John de Walton,” he said, “methinks you are a little churlish in not ordering me some breakfast, after I have been all night engaged in your affairs; and a cup of muscadel would, I think, be no bad induction to a full consideration of this perplexed matter.” Castle Dangerous
- We had engaged a very nice mare and stanhope, which we knew we could depend upon, when, the day before the race, the chestnut was declared lame, and not a presentable four-legged animal was to be hired in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 363, January, 1846
- This enables more active forms of mobilization, with many memberships engaged in various forms of collective action, often for the first times in their history.
- The services of the laboratory are offered gratuitously to any scientist or graduate student engaged in research which makes a significant contribution to progress in the fields of science.
- The plaintiff had sued one member, Hunter, of a committee of the management of a hospital which had engaged him.
- He engaged in endless litigation against the media.
- These results indicate that, depending on the unique features of a given learning, experience, very different classes of mechanisms can be engaged to subserve memory in a particular time domain.
- She should not be engaged in remunerative work.
