Definitions for engagé
ɛnˈgeɪdʒen·gagé

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:3.5 / 4 votes

1. prosecute, engage, pursueverb

   carry out or participate in an activity; be involved in

   "She pursued many activities"; "They engaged in a discussion"

2. absorb, engross, engage, occupyverb

   consume all of one's attention or time

   "Her interest in butterflies absorbs her completely"

3. hire, engage, employverb

   engage or hire for work

   "They hired two new secretaries in the department"; "How many people has she employed?"

4. engageverb

   ask to represent; of legal counsel

   "I'm retaining a lawyer"

5. betroth, engage, affiance, plightverb

   give to in marriage

6. engageverb

   get caught

   "make sure the gear is engaged"

7. engage, wageverb

   carry on (wars, battles, or campaigns)

   "Napoleon and Hitler waged war against all of Europe"

8. engage, enlistverb

   hire for work or assistance

   "engage aid, help, services, or support"

9. lease, rent, hire, charter, engage, takeverb

   engage for service under a term of contract

   "We took an apartment on a quiet street"; "Let's rent a car"; "Shall we take a guide in Rome?"

10. engage, mesh, lock, operateverb

    keep engaged

    "engaged the gears"

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. engageverb

   To engross or hold the attention of (someone); to keep busy or occupied.

2. engageverb

   To draw into conversation.

3. engageverb

   To attract, to please; to fascinate or win over (someone).

4. engageverb

   To enter into conflict with (an enemy).

5. engageverb

   To enter into battle.

6. engageverb

   To arrange to employ or use (a worker, a space, etc).

7. engageverb

   To mesh or interlock (of machinery, especially a clutch).

   Whenever I engage the clutch, the car stalls out.

8. engageverb

   To enter into (an activity), to participate (construed with in).

9. engageverb

   To guarantee or promise (to do something).

10. engageverb

    To bind through legal or moral obligation (to do something, especially to marry) (usually in passive).

    They were engaged last month! They're planning to have the wedding next year.

11. engageverb

    To pledge, pawn (one's property); to put (something) at risk or on the line; to mortgage (houses, land).

12. Etymology: From engagier, from engager, from Old, from an- + wadjōnan, from wadjō, from wadʰ-, equivalent to. Cognate with anwedd, weddian, wetten, veðja. More at wed.

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. To ENGAGEverb

   Etymology: engager, French.

   1. To make liable for a debt to a creditor.

   I have engag’d myself to a dear friend,
   Engag’d my friend to his meer enemy,
   To feed my means. William Shakespeare, Merchant of Venice.

   2. To impawn; to stake.

   They most perfidiously condemn
   Those that engag’d their lives for them. Hudibras, p. ii.

   3. To enlist; to bring into a party.

   All wicked men are of a party against religion: some lust or interest engageth them against it. John Tillotson, Sermons.

   4. To embark in an affair; to enter in an undertaking.

   So far had we engaged ourselves, unfortunate souls, that we listed not to complain, since our complaints could not but carry the greatest accusation to ourselves. Philip Sidney, b. ii.

   Before I engage myself in giving any answer to this objection of inconsumptible lights, I would see the effect certainly averred. Kenelm Digby, on Bodies.

   5. To unite; to attach; to make adherent.

   This humanity and good-nature engages every body to him, so that when he is pleasant upon any of them, all his family are in good humour. Joseph Addison, Spectator, №. 106.

   6. To induce; to win by pleasing means; to gain.

   To ev’ry duty he cou’d minds engage,
   Provoke their courage, and command their rage. Edmund Waller.

   His beauty these, and those his blooming age,
   The rest his house and his own fame engage. John Dryden, Æn.

   So shall I court thy dearest truth,
   When beauty ceases to engage;
   So thinking on thy charming youth,
   I’ll love it o’er again in age. Matthew Prior.

   7. To bind by any appointment or contract.

   We have been firm to our allies, without declining any expence to which we had engaged ourselves, and we have even exceeded our engagement. Francis Atterbury, Sermons.

   8. To seize by the attention.9. To employ; to hold in business.

   For I shall sing of battles, blood and rage,
   Which princes and their people did engage. Dryden.

   10. To encounter; to fight.

   The rebel knave, who dares his prince engage,
   Proves the just victim of his royal rage. Alexander Pope.

2. To Engageverb

   1. To conflict; to fight.

   Upon advertisement of the Scots army, the earl of Holland was sent with a body to meet and engage with it. Edward Hyde.

   2. To embark in any business; to enlist in any party.

   ’Tis not, indeed, my talent to engage
   In lofty trifles, or to swell my page
   With wind and noise. John Dryden, Pers. Sat. 5.

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1. engage

   To engage means to become involved in, participate in, or attract and hold the attention or interest of someone. It can also refer to the act of making a commitment or promise, entering into a contract or an agreement, or starting a fight or battle.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Engageverb

   to put under pledge; to pledge; to place under obligations to do or forbear doing something, as by a pledge, oath, or promise; to bind by contract or promise

2. Engageverb

   to gain for service; to bring in as associate or aid; to enlist; as, to engage friends to aid in a cause; to engage men for service

3. Engageverb

   to gain over; to win and attach; to attract and hold; to draw

4. Engageverb

   to employ the attention and efforts of; to occupy; to engross; to draw on

5. Engageverb

   to enter into contest with; to encounter; to bring to conflict

6. Engageverb

   to come into gear with; as, the teeth of one cogwheel engage those of another, or one part of a clutch engages the other part

7. Engageverb

   to promise or pledge one's self; to enter into an obligation; to become bound; to warrant

8. Engageverb

   to embark in a business; to take a part; to employ or involve one's self; to devote attention and effort; to enlist; as, to engage in controversy

9. Engageverb

   to enter into conflict; to join battle; as, the armies engaged in a general battle

10. Engageverb

    to be in gear, as two cogwheels working together

11. Etymology: [F. engager; pref. en- (L. in) + gage pledge, pawn. See Gage.]

WikidataRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Engage

   Engage is an anti-racist organization which publishes materials in opposition to antisemitism, primarily in UK academic institutions. The group is made up of left-wing academics who oppose boycotts of Israel. The organization describes its mission as follows: "Engage challenges left and liberal antisemitism in the labour movement, in our universities and in public life more generally. Antisemitism here, manifests itself mainly as anti-Zionism. We are a resource for the monitoring and the critique of left and liberal antisemitism." Engage was originally founded in response to the decision of the Association of University Teachers to participate in an academic and cultural boycott of Israel. The founders of Engage are David Hirsh, who teaches at Goldsmiths College at the University of London, and Jon Pike, who teaches at the Open University. Hirsh had previously about left and liberal antisemitism for the Guardian Unlimited blog. Well-known supporters include the academic and blogger Norman Geras.

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Engage

   en-gāj′, v.t. to bind by a gage or pledge: to render liable: to gain for service: to enlist: to gain over: to betroth: (archit.) to fasten: to win: to occupy: to enter into contest with: (obs.) to entangle.—v.i. to pledge one's word: to become bound: to take a part: to enter into conflict.—p.adj. Engaged′, pledged: promised, esp. in marriage: greatly interested: occupied: (archit.) partly built or sunk into, or so appearing: geared together, interlocked.—n. Engage′ment, act of engaging: state of being engaged: that which engages: betrothal: promise: employment: a fight or battle.—p.adj. Engag′ing, winning: attractive.—adv. Engag′ingly.—Engage for, to answer for. [Fr. engager—en gage, in pledge. See Gage.]

Dictionary of Military and Associated TermsRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. engage

   1. In air defense, a fire control order used to direct or authorize units and/or weapon systems to fire on a designated target. See also cease engagement; hold fire. 2. (DOD only) To bring the enemy under fire.

Military Dictionary and GazetteerRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. engage

   To gain for service; to enlist.

2. engage

   To enter into conflict; to join battle; as, the armies engaged in a general battle.

Editors ContributionRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. engage

   To interact and communicate.

   So many people are engaged in politics and are inspired and motivated to make a difference.

   
   

   Submitted by MaryC on April 4, 2020  

Matched Categories

1. • Act
   • Get
   • Hire
   • Interest
   • Secure
   • Touch

British National Corpus

1. Verbs Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'engagé' in Verbs Frequency: #441

How to pronounce engagé?

1. Alex

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   Karen

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   Zira

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of engagé in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of engagé in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7

Examples of engagé in a Sentence

1. Smiley Blanton:

   It is easier to talk about money -- and much easier to talk about sex -- than it is to talk about power. People who have it deny it people who want it do not want to appear to hunger for it and people who engage in its machinations do so secretly.

2. Erika Forbes:

   During preschool, children's increasing independence but less-than-optimal self-control can make it especially challenging for mothers (or any caregivers) to set limits, grant autonomy and resolve conflicts, if mothers are depressed, they might find themselves too exhausted or emotionally taxed to engage in the kind of vigorous parenting that preschoolers tend to need.

3. Assistant Attorney General Stephen Boyd:

   This does not appear to be an effort to engage in good-faith negotiations or accommodations, instead, it appears to be another example of the administration's blanket defiance of Congress' constitutionally-mandated responsibilities.

4. State John Kerry:

   Russia will have to speak itself as to what it is going to choose to do in order to help Mr Assad make the right decisions, but we agreed today that we will accelerate the effort to try to move the political process forward, i believe that Russia is fully engaged in this effort and all of us are going to try and get President Assad to make the right decision over these next days to engage in a political process that results in a genuine transition.

5. International Civil Aviation Organization:

   We actively engage the states in that region, in particular Ukraine and Russia, to make the states to coordinate and so far I think there has been some progress but at this stage I think they still did not find a solution.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=engagé
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Engage
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=engagé
4. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
5. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/engagé
6. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=engagé
7. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=engagé
8. ^ Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms
   https://www.tradoc.army.mil/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/AD1029823-DOD-Dictionary-of-Military-and-Associated-Terms-2017.pdf
9. ^ Military Dictionary and Gazetteer
   https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/59563/pg59563-images.html