Engagement | Mean of engagement in English Dictionary

/ɪnˈgeɪʤmənt/

• Noun
• an agreement to be married
1. The couple recently announced their engagement.
2. She surprised everyone by breaking off her yearlong engagement.
3. We're invited to their engagement party.
4. an engagement ring
• a promise to meet or be present at a particular place and time
1. He was forced to decline due to a previous engagement. [=commitment, appointment]
2. We have a dinner engagement this weekend.
• a job as a performer
1. She's been offered several speaking engagements.

• the act or state of being involved with something
1. his lifelong engagement with politics
2. a lack of emotional engagement
• a fight between military forces
1. a naval engagement
2. the rules of engagement
• the act of hiring someone to do work or to perform a service
1. engagement of a lawyer
• the act or result of moving a mechanism or part of a machine so that it fits into another part
1. engagement of the gears/clutch