The act of giving someone a job

Usage examples of engagement.

Martinelli had an engagement and could not come to dinner, but he led me out of the park by a door with which I was not acquainted, and sent me on my way.

His Grace had promised to return with Lady Afy, and was devising some scheme by which he might free himself from this, now not very suitable, engagement, when she claimed his arm.

She begged me to compel the Jew to fulfil his engagement, and I promised to do so.

Maar het was de eerste maal, dat zij haar zagen, nadat het bekend was geworden, dat haar engagement verbroken was, en zij moest zich wel dat pijnlijk kruisvuur van blikken getroosten.

It was pledged to my grandfather for two hundred crowns by a knight of Malta, who soon after perished in a sea engagement with the enemies of our faith, so that it became the property of our house, and was bequeathed to me by the old gentleman, as a memorial of his particular affection.

Some engagements were fought, some towns were besieged, with various and doubtful success: and if the Romans failed in their attempt to recover the long-lost possession of Nisibis, the Persians were repulsed from the walls of a Mesopotamian city, by the valor of a martial bishop, who pointed his thundering engine in the name of St.

From world-centric pluralism to divine egoism and biocentric sensory immersionat one with sentimental nature in my own self-reverberating feelingsthis was the other endgame of flatland holism, a morbid embrace driven by a Thanatos that, in the way of all deception, whispered always of the wonders of ever-shallower engagements.

Het portret zelve, dat zij gedurende haar engagement steeds bij zich gedragen had, had zij met zijne andere cadeaux, met den waaier van Bucchi, hem teruggezonden, als eene allerlaatste, noodzakelijk vereischte wreedheid, die zij hem had toegebracht.

The prodigious feat had been noted in the Press of all countries with every circumstance--the five violins he had tired out, the invitation he had received to preside over a South American Republic, the special steamer he had chartered to keep an engagement in North America, and his fainting fit in Moscow after the Beethoven and Brahms concertos, the Bach chaconne, and seventeen encores.

The engagement announcement had been made immediately following the christening of Jesse Elizabeth Creed and had surprised and delighted the assembled planters, their wives, sons, and daughters.

From this moment on, we will behave as if the engagement between Colden and Katherine never happened.

I made up my mind to go to Bologna as quickly as possible in order to get a passport, and to return to Pesaro, where I should find my passport from Rome, for I could not make up my mind to lose my trunk, and I did not want to be separated from Therese until the end of her engagement with the manager of the Rimini Theatre.

I called at her house, and finding the manager there asked him what security he could give for the fulfilment of his part of the engagement.

What else could I think, after an actor like Clerval had assured me I had a talent for acting and had offered me a good engagement?

Unfortunately, the Sparrow missiles already launched could not tell that Dao had broken off the engagement.