engage in
English
[edit]Verb
[edit]engage in (third-person singular simple present engages in, present participle engaging in, simple past and past participle engaged in)
- (transitive) To start performing (an activity).
- 1910, Emerson Hough, chapter I, in The Purchase Price: Or The Cause of Compromise, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
- We are engaged in a great work, a treatise on our river fortifications, perhaps? But since when did army officers afford the luxury of amanuenses in this simple republic?
Translations
[edit]to enter into an activity — see also kick in
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