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Answer for the clue "Concert engagement ", 3 letters:
gig

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WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. long and light rowing boat; especially for racing an implement with a shaft and barbed point used for catching fish [syn: spear , fizgig , fishgig , lance ] a cluster of hooks (without barbs) that is drawn through a school of fish to hook their bodies; ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"job," first used by jazz musicians, attested from 1915 but said to have been in use c.1905; of uncertain origin. As a verb, by 1939. Related: Gigged ; gigging .

Usage examples of gig.

And the aileron and rudder controls, and those which governed the pitch and tune of the rotor blades, by whose combined means the little gig could have been brought down to the surface, were out of operation.

Cassidy was reminded of all the backstage fights he had been part of, back in the days when he still had a band: then the times when he was too fucked up on drugs to go out and play, when Jaime and Amad and the session men would haul him away from the mike and into the wings, demanding to know whether he had broken his vow to stay straight for this one gig.

If I could reach Devizesit is nearer than Calne, and I know some of the London coaches do take that roadonly I shall have a portmanteau to carry, and perhaps a bandbox as well, so Oh, Tom, could you, do you think, take me to Devizes in your gig?

When night came, the gig was called away, and Frank, accompanied by the major, Archie, and the coxswain, was set on shore.

Meantime Alec got better and better, went out with Mr Cupples in the gig, ate like an ogre, drank like a hippopotamus, and was rapidly recovering his former strength.

He, Lam, and Dobler stepped into the gig and it powered back to the ship.

She hoisted the supplies she had collectedfood, water, and some heavier weapons and exited the Fiver to the gig.

Cuffe, as he turned away his face, inadvertently bending his eyes on the Foudroyant, nearly under the stern of which ship his gig lay.

With that kind of bread behind me, I could lay on a whole series of special gigs playing anything that turns you guys on.

Their gig at the Astoria was one of three make-up gigs for the London area.

Jim had been worried about the cost of the project and he had taken pains to point out to Astor that fans would still come to Drachensblut gigs after buying the video, just as they came to live gigs after buying live audio albums.

As well as performing gigs around the local area, the musicians had started putting on shows at the pub.

Astor and his band played three gigs on successive nights, the first at the Astoria and the next two at venues of similar size in neighbouring towns.

He had three gigs lined up over the weekend - a Saturday nighter at the Astoria with the regulars and then two club gigs as a member of a completely different Dead Junkies line-up with another set of local musicians.

The Dead Junkies had a couple of gigs over the weekend and he was expecting a bunch of musicians to descend on his home within the hour for a combined rehearsal and musical strategy session.