Definitions for engaged
ɛnˈgeɪdʒden·gaged

Princeton's WordNet(4.00 / 1 vote)Rate this definition:

1. engaged, occupied(adj)

   having ones attention or mind or energy engaged

   "she keeps herself fully occupied with volunteer activities"; "deeply engaged in conversation"

2. engaged(adj)

   involved in military hostilities

   "the desperately engaged ships continued the fight"

3. booked, engaged, set-aside(p)(adj)

   reserved in advance

4. busy, engaged, in use(p)(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"

5. engaged, meshed, intermeshed(adj)

   (used of toothed parts or gears) interlocked and interacting

   "the gears are engaged"; "meshed gears"; "intermeshed twin rotors"

6. engaged(adj)

   having services contracted for

   "the carpenter engaged (or employed) for the job is sick"

7. engaged(adj)

   built against or attached to a wall

   "engaged columns"

Wiktionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. engaged(Adjective)

   Agreed to be married.

2. engaged(Adjective)

   Busy or employed.

3. engaged(Adjective)

   Already involved in a telephone call when a third party calls it

4. engaged(Adjective)

   attached to a wall or sunk into it halfway

5. engaged(Adjective)

   in contact and in operation

Webster Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Engaged

   of Engage

2. Engaged(adj)

   occupied; employed; busy

3. Engaged(adj)

   pledged; promised; especially, having the affections pledged; promised in marriage; affianced; betrothed

4. Engaged(adj)

   greatly interested; of awakened zeal; earnest

5. Engaged(adj)

   involved; esp., involved in a hostile encounter; as, the engaged ships continued the fight

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1. Engaged

   Engaged is a three-act farcical comic play by W. S. Gilbert. It premiered at the Haymarket Theatre on 3 October 1877, the same year as The Sorcerer, one of Gilbert's comic operas written with Arthur Sullivan, which was soon followed by the collaborators' great success in H.M.S. Pinafore. Engaged was well received on the London stage and then in New York City, where the first production of the play opened in February 1879. The work then enjoyed many revivals on both sides of the Atlantic and continues to be produced today. Engaged has been W. S. Gilbert's most popular stage work aside from the Gilbert and Sullivan comic operas. A New York Times review of an 1886 production of Engaged noted that "the laughter was almost incessant." Makers wrote: "Engaged [is] unquestionably the finest and funniest English comedy between Bulwer-Lytton's Money and Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest, which it directly inspired". Engaged may also have inspired George Bernard Shaw's Arms and the Man and Alan Ayckbourn's The Norman Conquests.

Editors Contribution(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. engaged

   Agree to marry.

   They both chose to marry and got engaged.

   Submitted by MaryC on March 7, 2020  

2. engaged

   Verb form of the word engage.

   We are engaged in peaceful and unifying politics.

   Submitted by MaryC on April 4, 2020  

British National Corpus

1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'engaged' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #3576

How to pronounce engaged?

1. Alex

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of engaged in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of engaged in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7

Examples of engaged in a Sentence

1. The US:

   I don't know if North Korea has made the choice yet to denuclearize, but the reason why we're engaged in this is because we believe there's a possibility that North Korea can make the choice to fully denuclearize.

2. New York:

   In the privacy of intimate relationships, I have engaged in role-playing and other consensual sexual activity, i have not assaulted anyone. I have never engaged in non-consensual sex, which is a line I would not cross.

3. University President Mark Schlissel:

   Over the next three days, the university retained an outside law firm which immediately launched an investigation of the allegations, our Division of Public Safety and Security was engaged, and Dr. Philbert was directed not to report to work. I placed him on administrative leave Tuesday.

4. Meghan Flanz:

   We will, whenever the evidence shows retaliation is engaged in, hold them accountable.

5. Greg Barker:

   The Irish government has been very engaged with Rusal to find ways in which they can mitigate the impact of sanctions. I will be going (to Dublin) with a very clear message.

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