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Engage

verb

(past & past part. engaged; pres. part. engaging)

Carry out or participate in an activity; be involved in. Synonyms: prosecute, pursue. "They engaged in a discussion"

Consume all of one's attention or time. Synonyms: absorb, engross, occupy.

Engage or hire for work. Synonyms: employ, hire. "How many people has she employed?"

Ask to represent; of legal counsel.

Give to in marriage. Synonyms: affiance, betroth, plight.

Get caught.

Carry on (wars, battles, or campaigns). Synonym: wage.

Hire for work or assistance. Synonym: enlist.

Engage for service under a term of contract. Synonyms: charter, hire, lease, rent, take. "Let's rent a car" , "Shall we take a guide in Rome?"

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Keep engaged. Synonyms: lock, mesh, operate.

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"Engage" Quotes from Famous Books

... her, an' then again, I was broke. I don't mind bein' broke when I 'm on the range 'cause a feller can pick up a job anywhere; but I wasn't city-wise, an' I didn't know how long it would take me to track down the kind o' business I wanted to engage in. ...

— Happy Hawkins • Robert Alexander Wason

... piece of property with a cloudy title due to a family feud or the stubbornness of the present owner. Here it may be to the buyer's advantage to obtain an option on it and engage a local lawyer experienced in real estate matters to perfect the title. For example, two spinster sisters lived in their father's old farmhouse. They were not at all averse to selling, but under the terms of their father's will, a niece ...

— If You're Going to Live in the Country • Thomas H. Ormsbee and Richmond Huntley

... that sum, and that by return of post. Forgive me this earnestness, but the horrors of a jail have made me half distracted. I do not ask all this gratuitously; for, upon returning health, I hereby promise and engage to furnish you with five pounds' worth of the neatest song-genius you have seen. I tried my hand on Rothemurchie this morning. The measure is so difficult that it is impossible to infuse much genius into the lines. They are ...

— Robert Burns • Principal Shairp

... "You engage for the time that the ship is in commission, at the outside for five years; and if you find that you do not like it, at the end of that time it is open to you to choose some ...

— By Conduct and Courage • G. A. Henty

... never mind. Two of my friends have wanted to copy it, Blanche. They wouldn't believe it was done by a maid. They said it had such style. One of them would engage you to-morrow if you ...

— The Marriage of William Ashe • Mrs. Humphry Ward

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