engage
从事,参与,雇佣,从事的工作
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Definitions
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en·gaged, en·gag·ing.
- : to occupy the attention or efforts of: He engaged her in conversation.
- : to secure for aid, employment, use, etc.; hire: to engage a worker; to engage a room.
- : to attract and hold fast: The novel engaged her attention and interest.
- : to attract or please: His good nature engages everyone.
- : to bind, as by pledge, promise, contract, or oath; make liable: He engaged himself to repay his debt within a month.
- : to betroth: They were engaged last week.
- : to bring into conflict; enter into conflict with: Our army engaged the enemy.
- : Mechanics. to cause to become interlocked; interlock with.
- : to attach or secure.
- : Obsolete. to entangle or involve.
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Synonyms & Antonyms
Examples
Crucially, the team engaged with critics rather than just dismissing them.
Keep your knees bent, your feet flat on the floor, and your core engaged.
People with good paying jobs like supervisors, managers, directors, and vice presidents do not normally engage in theft, drug deals, or gang activity.
Some lawmakers feared that landlords would literally run tenants off of properties at gunpoint or engage other forms of extralegal self-help.
Food isn’t the only thing we share, but eating is a particularly good example of a shared activity because it’s necessary, and because we engage in it throughout our lives—unlike playing with blocks, perhaps.
Then we all have to do our part to engage the officers and our community, and hold everyone accountable in the process.
The Millennial Action Project (MAP) seeks to engage young people in politics and give them more of a voice in governing.
Not that he ever planned to engage in the controversy directly.
Cook walked more slowly than most, stopping to engage with passersby who expressed their own frustration and support.
Such messages are unlikely to be beloved of secularists who prefer to scoff at the religious rather than engage with them.
He continued its sale, however, as a kingly monopoly, allowing only those to engage in it who paid him for the privilege.