If you are a musician or performer and you arrange for a performance, then you have booked an engagement. You might stand in line for tickets when your favorite comedian books an engagement at the local theater.
The act of engaging, pledging, enlisting, occupying, or entering into contest.
Noun
employment for performers or performing groups that lasts for a limited period of time; "the play had bookings throughout the summer"
Noun
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"
Noun
the act of giving someone a job
Noun
the act of sharing in the activities of a group; "the teacher tried to increase his students'' engagement in class activities"
Noun
a mutual promise to marry
Noun
contact by fitting together; "the engagement of the clutch"; "the meshing of gears"
Noun
a meeting arranged in advance; "she asked how to avoid kissing at the end of a date"
n.
The act of engaging, pledging, enlisting, occupying, or
entering into contest.
n.
The state of being engaged, pledged or occupied;
specif., a pledge to take some one as husband or wife.
n.
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.
n.
An action; a fight; a battle.
n.
The state of being in gear; as, one part of a clutch is
brought into engagement with the other part.
Engagement
Religion, which is the chief engagement of our league.4.
In hot engagement with the Moors.5.
The act of engaging, pledging, enlisting, occupying, or entering into contest.
Usage Examples
Turkey wants a policy of engagement exactly like President Obama's new approach. Policy of engagement, less confrontation, less tense attitude, especially in the region.
If adolescent pregnancy prevention is to become a priority, then our strategy, as advocates, must contain two key elements: civic engagement and education.
Women are, in my view, natural peacemakers. As givers and nurturers of life, through their focus on human relationships and their engagement with the demanding work of raising children and protecting family life, they develop a deep sense of empathy that cuts through to underlying human realities.
When it comes to Chinese food I have always operated under the policy that the less known about the preparation the better. A wise diner who is invited to visit the kitchen replies by saying, as politely as possible, that he has a pressing engagement elsewhere.
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Other Usage ExamplesWe are all afraid for our confidence, for the future, for the world. That is the nature of the human imagination. Yet every man, every civilization, has gone forward because of its engagement with what it has set itself to do.
There is no international problem that can be addressed or solved without the engagement and leadership of the United States and everybody in the world knows that, its just fact of life. So sometimes I think we could conduct ourselves with a little more humility.
One of my most sentimental items is my grandmother's engagement ring that my mom gave me a few years ago. It's a Victorian-style setting that's closed in the back, so it doesn't sparkle the way diamonds do now. I wear it as a pendant.
I've rarely kept my distance from kind of - I don't know if we can call it politics, but kind of, civic engagement and that kind of thing, except I tended to think, 'Well, do it yourself before you start telling other people what they should be doing.'
And across Afghanistan, every single day, Afghan soldiers, Afghan police and ISAF troops are serving shoulder-to-shoulder in some very difficult situations. And our engagement with them, our shoulder-to-shoulder relationship with them, our conduct of operations with them every single day defines the real relationship.
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