Engage (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

verb (used with object), en·gaged, en·gag·ing.

to occupy the attention or efforts of (a person or persons): He engaged her in conversation.
to secure for aid, employment, use, etc.; hire: to engage a worker;to engage a room.
to attract and hold fast: The novel engaged her attention and interest.
to attract or please: His good nature engages everyone.
to bind, as by pledge, promise, contract, or oath; make liable: He engaged himself to repay his debt within a month.
to betroth (usually used in the passive): They were engaged last week.
to bring (troops) into conflict; enter into conflict with: Our army engaged the enemy.
to cause (gears or the like) to become interlocked; interlock with.
to attach or secure.
to entangle or involve.

verb (used without object), en·gaged, en·gag·ing.

to occupy oneself; become involved: to engage in business or politics.
to take employment: She engaged in her mother's business.
to pledge one's word; assume an obligation: I was unwilling to engage on such terms.
to cross weapons; enter into conflict: The armies engaged early in the morning.
(of gears or the like) to interlock.

adjective

choosing to involve oneself in or commit oneself to something: Some of the political activists grew less engagé as the years passed.

verb (mainly tr)

to secure the services of; employ
to secure for use; reserve
to involve (a person or his attention) intensely; engross; occupy
to attract (the affection) of (a person)
to draw (somebody) into conversation
to take part; participate
to promise (to do something)
to begin an action with (an enemy)
to bring (a mechanism) into operation
to undergo or cause to undergo interlocking, as of the components of a driving mechanism, such as a gear train
to locate (a locking device) in its operative position or to advance (a tool) into a workpiece to commence cutting

adjective

(of a writer or artist, esp a man) morally or politically committed to some ideology

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