4. engagement a pledge; an obligation or agreement.
5. engagement employment, or a period or post of employment.
6. engagement an encounter, conflict, or battle.
7. engagement the act or state of interlocking.
Etymology: (1615–25)
Definition of 'Engagement'
Princeton's WordNet
1. (noun)battle, conflict, fight, engagement 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"
2. (noun)date, appointment, engagement a meeting arranged in advance "she asked how to avoid kissing at the end of a date"
3. (noun)betrothal, troth, engagement a mutual promise to marry
4. (noun)employment, engagement the act of giving someone a job
5. (noun)engagement, booking employment for performers or performing groups that lasts for a limited period of time "the play had bookings throughout the summer"
6. (noun)engagement, mesh, meshing, interlocking contact by fitting together "the engagement of the clutch"; "the meshing of gears"
7. (noun)engagement, participation, involvement, involution the act of sharing in the activities of a group "the teacher tried to increase his students' engagement in class activities"
1. (noun)engagement a promise to marry sb She broke off their engagement.
2. engagement a meeting with sb; = appointment a previous engagement
Definition of 'Engagement'
Webster Dictionary
1. (noun)Engagement the act of engaging, pledging, enlisting, occupying, or entering into contest
2. (noun)Engagement the state of being engaged, pledged or occupied; specif., a pledge to take some one as husband or wife
3. (noun)Engagement 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
4. (noun)Engagement an action; a fight; a battle
5. (noun)Engagement the state of being in gear; as, one part of a clutch is brought into engagement with the other part
Definition of 'Engagement'
Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms
1. Engagement 1. In air defense, an attack with guns or air-to-air missiles by an interceptor aircraft, or the launch of an air defense missile by air defense artillery and the missile
Sense: busy; not free; occupied Please come if you are not already engaged for that evening; The room / telephone line is engaged.; the engagement of three new assistants; When shall we announce our engagement?; Have you any engagements tomorrow?; a naval engagement (= battle); (
Definitions of Engagement 
Afrikaans: verlowing, verbintenis
Arabic: إشْتِباك، خُطْبَه
Bulgarian: наемане
Brazilian: compromisso
Czech: angažování; zasnoubení; z
German: die Anstellung, die Verlo
Danish: ansættelse; forlovelse; a
Greek: πρόσληψη, απασχόληση, αρρ
Spanish: contrato, petición de man
Estonian: töölevõtmine, kihlus, kok
Farsi: نامزدی؛ مشغولیت؛ وعده؛ نب
Finnish: kihlaus
French: recrutement, fiançailles,
Hebrew: אִירוּסִין
Hindi: काम में व्यस्त रहने की, स
Croatian: zaruke; prid. zaručnički
Hungarian: alkalmazás; eljegyzés; el
Indonesian: janji, pertunangan
Icelandic: ráðning; trúlofun; bardag
Italian: assunzione; fidanzamento,
Japanese: 係り合うこと
Korean: 약혼, 고용
Lithuanian: įdarbinimas, sužadėtuvės,
Latvian: nodarbināšana; saderināša
Malay: petunangan
Dutch: aanstelling, verloving, a
Norwegian: ansettelse; forlovelse; t
Polish: zatrudnienie, zaręczyny, 
Persian: نامزدی؛ مشغولیت؛ وعده؛ نب
Pashto: كوزده، نامزدى، نيونه،استخ
Portuguese: compromisso
Romanian: angajare; logodnă; tr
Russian: наём; помолвка; встреча; 
Slovak: zamestnanie; zasnúbenie; 
Slovenian: zaposlitev; zaroka; obvez
Serbian: veridba
Swedish: anställning, förlovning, 
Thai: การนัดพบ; การหมั้น
Turkish: sözleşme; nişan(lama); ça
Taiwanese: 僱用，訂婚，約會，交戰
Ukrainian: заняття; заручини
Urdu: ملاقات ، منگنی
Vietnamese: sự hứa hẹn; trận giao chi
Chinese: 雇用，订婚的，约会，战役
