Results for engage

Definitions of engage:

part of speech: verb intransitive

To promise or assume an obligation; occupy oneself; as, to engage in business; enter a conflict.

part of speech: verb transitive

To pledge or bind by oath or contract; to betroth; to win; as, his smile engages every one to him; in machinery, to come into gear with; make liable for a debt; secure for aid or employment; as, to engage a workman; encounter in battle; occupy the time or attention of; as, to engage one in conversation.

part of speech: verb intransitive

To pledge one's word: to become bound: to take a part: to enter into conflict.

part of speech: verb

To occupy, as one's time; to undertake; to win, as affection; to hold, as in attention; to embark in, as in business; to bespeak, as rooms or a partner in a dance; to bind one's self as surety; to enlist for a service; to unite by contract; to begin to fight.

part of speech: verb transitive

To bind by a gage or pledge: to render liable: to gain for service: to enlist: to gain over: to win: to occupy: to enter into contest with.

Usage examples for engage:

• June 17. On June 17 arrived a last letter from Lee:- " From your account of the position of the enemy I think it would be difficult for you to engage him in time to unite with this army in the battle for Richmond. "Stonewall Jackson And The American Civil War", G. F. R. Henderson

• He may engage in domestic or even professional work so long as this does not interfere with the duties of his calling. "Armenian Legends and Festivals", Louis A. Boettiger

• Men who never wrote a letter in their lives before, are at it now; those who cannot write at all, are either learning, or engage their comrades to write for them, and the command is doing more writing in one day than, I should judge, we used to do in a month, and, perhaps, a year. "Three Years in the Federal Cavalry", Willard Glazier