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Answer for the clue "Engaged by English paper, I turned up ", 6 letters:
in use

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Word definitions for in use in dictionaries

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
adj. (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); "her line is busy"; "receptionists' telephones are always engaged"; "the lavatory ...

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Use \Use\, n. [OE. us use, usage, L. usus, from uti, p. p. usus, to use. See Use , v. t.] The act of employing anything, or of applying it to one's service; the state of being so employed or applied; application; employment; conversion to some purpose; ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. currently being used

Usage examples of in use.

CB radio, but those trucks had either been in use or parked near someone who would have questioned her actions.

It augmented, rather than replaced, the standard IFF devices which had been in use since before Sassinak joined the Fleet.

The farm implements in use on the plantation represented the very latest innovations in modern farming equipment, and Amanda found herself smiling wryly again.

Their only chance to protect the transport, and save themselves, lay in using every scrap of cover the complex system offered.

There was no need to send the populace running in fear, after all, as would have undoubtedly occurred even if the dragon had gone in using his lizardman form.

It allowed me a peaceful psychic communion without any effort on my part, and there was next to no danger of exposure involved in using it.