engagement

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Etymology

French engagement

Noun

Wikipedia engagement (plural engagements)

1. (countable) an appointment, especially to speak or perform

   The lecturer has three speaking engagements this week.

2. (uncountable) connection or attachment

   Check the gears for full engagement before turning the handle.

3. (countable or uncountable) the period of time when marriage is planned or promised

   We are enjoying a long engagement, but haven't yet set a date.

4. In any situation of conflict, an actual instance of active hostilities.

   The engagement resulted in may causualties.

   After engagement it quickly became clear which of the fencers was going to prevail.

   1. (fencing) the point at which the fencers are close enough to join blades, or to make an effective attack during an encounter.

Derived terms

• engagement ring

Translations

an appointment, especially to speak or perform

Bulgarian: ангажимент (bg) m.

period of time when marriage is planned or promised

Arabic: خطبة (ar) (xíṭba) f., خطوبة (ar) (xuṭūba) f. Bulgarian: годеж (bg) m. Chinese: Mandarin: 婚約 (zh), 婚约 (zh) (hūnyuē), 訂婚 (zh), 订婚 (zh) (dìnghūn) Czech: zasnoubení (cs) n. Esperanto: fianĉiĝo (eo) Finnish: kihlausaika (fi) French: fiançailles (fr) f. pl. German: Verlobung (de) f. Hungarian: eljegyzés (hu) Japanese: 婚約 (ja) (こんやく, kon'yaku)

Korean: 약혼 (ko) (yak-hon) (約婚 (ko)) Polish: zaręczyny (pl) f. pl. Romanian: logodire (ro) f. Russian: помолвка (ru) (pomólvka) f., обручение (ru) (obručénije) n. Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: веридба (sh) f. Roman: veridba (sh) f. Swedish: förlovning (sv) c. Turkish: nişan (tr) Vietnamese: sự đính hôn (vi) (sự + 訂婚 (vi))

In any situation of conflict, an actual instance of active hostilities

Bulgarian: сражение (bg) n.

Russian: сражение (ru) (sražénije) n.

See also

• engage
• battle
• campaign

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French

Etymology

engager +‎ -ment

Noun

engagement m. (plural engagements)

1. commitment
2. engagement