Crossword clues for engagement
engagement
- Usual wedding precursor
- A mutual promise to marry
- Contact by fitting together
- Sharing the activities of a group
- A meeting arranged in advance
- A hostile meeting of opposing military forces in the course of a war
- Employment for performers or performing groups that lasts for a limited period of time
- The act of giving someone a job
- Good time to have chaps in field of medicine taking part
- A phase of love or of war?
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Engagement \En*gage"ment\, n. [Cf. F. engagement.]
The act of engaging, pledging, enlisting, occupying, or entering into contest.
The state of being engaged, pledged or occupied; specif., a pledge to take some one as husband or wife.
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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.
Religion, which is the chief engagement of our league.
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(Mil.) An action; a fight; a battle.
In hot engagement with the Moors.
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(Mach.) The state of being in gear; as, one part of a clutch is brought into engagement with the other part.
Syn: Vocation; business; employment; occupation; promise; stipulation; betrothal; word; battle; combat; fight; contest; conflict. See Battle.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1620s, "formal promise," from engage + -ment. Meaning "a battle or fight between armies or fleets" is from 1660s; sense of "state of having entered into a promise of marriage" is from 1742; meaning "appointment" is from 1806. Engagement ring attested by 1863.
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context countable English) an appointment, especially to speak or perform 2 (context uncountable English) connection or attachment 3 (countable or uncountable) the period of time when marriage is planned or promised 4 In any situation of conflict, an actual instance of active hostilities. 5 (context fencing English) the point at which the fencers are close enough to join blades, or to make an effective attack during an encounter.
WordNet
n. 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" [syn: battle, conflict, fight]
a meeting arranged in advance; "she asked how to avoid kissing at the end of a date" [syn: date, appointment]
the act of giving someone a job [syn: employment]
employment for performers or performing groups that lasts for a limited period of time; "the play had bookings throughout the summer" [syn: booking]
contact by fitting together; "the engagement of the clutch"; "the meshing of gears" [syn: mesh, meshing, interlocking]
the act of sharing in the activities of a group; "the teacher tried to increase his students' engagement in class activities" [syn: participation, involvement, involution] [ant: non-engagement, non-engagement, non-engagement]
Wikipedia
An engagement, betrothal, or fiancer is a promise to wed, and also the period of time between a marriage proposal and a marriage. During this period, a couple is said to be betrothed, "intended", affianced, engaged to be married, or simply engaged. Future brides and grooms may be called the betrothed, a wife-to-be or husband-to-be, fiancée or fiancé, respectively (from the French word fiancer). The duration of the courtship varies vastly, and is largely dependent on cultural norms or upon the agreement of the parties involved.
Long engagements were once common in formal arranged marriages, and it was not uncommon for parents betrothing children to arrange marriages many years before the engaged couple were old enough.
Engagement may refer to the following:
- A pre-marriage engagement between two people
- appointment, a scheduled event requiring one's attendance
- Engagement (diplomacy) an umbrella term to include public diplomacy, communication and foreign aid
- Engagement (film), a South African independent film
- A Very Long Engagement, a 2004 French romantic war film ("Un long dimanche de fiançailles")
- Engagement (marketing), A marketing and advertising term, that refers to a meaningful interaction between a consumer and a brand
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Engagement (military), is the use of a munition, weapon or decoy to carry out an offensive or defensive action.
- List of military engagements of World War II
- Engagement (pregnancy), a baby's head moves down into the pelvic cavity
- Engagement letter between a client and an accounting firm
- Employee engagement a measurable degree of an employee's positive or negative emotional attachment to their job, colleagues and organization
- Social engagement, a measure of one's engagement with a community or society
- Student engagement, a concept in education describing students' involvement, participation, and interaction with their work, learning, and school community
Engagement is a South African film directed by Bryony and Mark Roughton.
The movie refers to itself as "A modern day parable: a dramatic romance filmed in Port Elizabeth in the Nelson Mandela Metropole, South Africa."
Engagement is a series of sculptures by Dennis Oppenheim depicting two diamond engagement rings. One version was installed in 2005 at Sunset Beach in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Others are at the Nevada Museum of Art in Reno, Nevada, San Diego, California, Ruoholahti, Finland, and Leoben, Austria.
A military engagement is a combat between two forces, neither larger than a division and not smaller than a company, in which each has an assigned or perceived mission. An engagement begins when the attacking force initiates combat in pursuit of its mission, and ends when the attacker has accomplished the mission, or ceases to try to accomplish the mission, or when one or both sides receive sufficient reinforcements, thus initiating a new engagement.
As a tactical mission, the engagement is often a part of a battle. An engagement normally lasts one to two days; it may be as brief as a few hours and is rarely longer than five days. It is at this scale of combat that tactical engagement ranges of weapons and support systems become important to the troops and their commanders.
Engagement is applied in diplomacy as a synonym for a wider range of more specific practices of contact between an international actor and a foreign public, including public diplomacy, communication and the deployment of international aid. It is associated with the approach to foreign policy that some have dubbed smart power. It was the title of a 2008 anthology of essays on the future of public diplomacy published by the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office.
Since January 2009, it has been widely used by the administration of President Barack Obama in the United States. In May 2009, the Obama administration announced the creation of a unit within the National Security Council responsible for coordinating diplomacy, aid and international communication called the Global Engagement Directive.
Variations on 'Engagement' include 'Strategic Public Engagement', which was first seen in June 2009 in a report by the Washington-based Think Tank Center for a New American Security entitled Beyond Bullets: A Pragmatic Strategy to Combat Violent Islamist Extremism.
The term engagement is used in both military and marketing contexts and thus has the advantage for the Obama administration of reassuring . Other terms might imply less neutrality or greater continuity with the approach of previous administration.
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.