Meaning of ENGAGED
| Pronunciation: | | en'geyjd
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- [adj] having services contracted for; "the carpenter engaged (or employed) for the job is sick"
- [adj] pledged to be married; "the engaged couple"
- [adj] having ones attention or mind or energy engaged; "she keeps herself fully occupied with volunteer activities"; "deeply engaged in conversation"
- [adj] (architecture) built against or attached to a wall; "engaged columns"
- [adj] (used of toothed parts or gears) interlocked and interacting; "the gears are engaged"; "meshed gears"; "intermeshed twin rotors"
- [adj] involved in military hostilities; "the desperately engaged ships continued the fight"
- [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 is in use"; "kept getting a busy signal"
- [adj] reserved in advance
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| | Synonyms: | | affianced, attached, bespoken, betrothed, booked, busy, committed, connected, employed, geared, in use(p), intermeshed, involved, meshed, occupied, pledged, reserved, set-aside(p) |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \En*gaged"\, a.
1. Occupied; employed; busy.
2. Pledged; promised; especially, having the affections
pledged; promised in marriage; affianced; betrothed.
3. Greatly interested; of awakened zeal; earnest.
4. Involved; esp., involved in a hostile encounter; as, the
engaged ships continued the fight.
{Engaged column}. (Arch.) Same as {Attached column}. See
under {Attach}, v. t.
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| | Related Terms: | | absorbed, absorbed in, accessory, affianced, agreed, armed, arranged, arrayed, assured, at it, at work, battled, betrothed, bound, buried in, busy, caught up in, committed, compacted, compromised, contemplating, contemplative, contracted, covenanted, deep, deployed, devoted, devoted to, embattled, employed, engrossed, engrossed in, full of business, guaranteed, hard at it, hard at work, immersed, immersed in, implicated, in battle array, in harness, intended, intent, intent on, involved, lost in, meditating, meditative, monomaniacal, monopolized, obligated, obsessed, occupied, on duty, on the go, on the hop, on the job, on the jump, on the move, on the run, partaking, participant, participating, participative, participatory, pledged, plighted, preoccupied, promised, ranged, rapt, sealed, settled, sharing, signed, single-minded, stipulated, studious, studying, submerged in, swept up, sworn, taken up with, tied up, totally absorbed, undertaken, underwritten, warranted, working, wrapped, wrapped in, wrapped up, wrapped up in |
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