engagement

noun

1. 1

   employment for performers or performing groups that lasts for a limited period of time

   the play had bookings throughout the summer

2. 2

   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

3. 3

   the act of giving someone a job

4. 4

   the act of sharing in the activities of a group

   the teacher tried to increase his students' engagement in class activities

5. 5

   a mutual promise to marry

6. 6

   contact by fitting together

   the engagement of the clutch

   the meshing of gears

7. 7

   a meeting arranged in advance

   she asked how to avoid kissing at the end of a date