engagement
/ɪnˈɡeɪd͡ʒ.mənt/ noun B2- An appointment, especially to speak or perform. · The lecturer has three speaking engagements this week.· prior engagement
- Connection or attachment. · Check the gears for full engagement before turning the handle.
- The feeling of being compelled, drawn in, connected to what is happening, interested in what will happen next.
- The period of time when marriage is planned or promised. · We are enjoying a long engagement, but haven't yet set a date.
- In any situation of conflict, an actual instance of active hostilities. · The engagement resulted in many casualties.
- The point at which the fencers are close enough to join blades, or to make an effective attack during an encounter. · After engagement it quickly became clear which of the fencers was going to prevail.
- A performance metric representing an instance where a user interacts with some content after an impression.
- The quantitative response to a piece of content or a service; attention.
Plural engagements
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He had been engaged to Miss Edith Woodley, of Carstairs, but the engagement had been broken off by mutual consent some months before, and there was no sign that it had left any very profound feeling behind it.
As soon as his engagement with the patron of La Jeune Amélie ended, he would hire a small vessel on his own account—for in his several voyages he had amassed a hundred piastres—and under some pretext land at the Island of Monte Cristo.
Colonel Fitzwilliam’s manners were very much admired at the Parsonage, and the ladies all felt that he must add considerably to the pleasure of their engagements at Rosings.
“True,” said Louis XVIII., “was there not a marriage engagement between you and Mademoiselle de Saint-Méran?”
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