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engage(verb)/ɪnˈɡeɪdʒ/ /ɪnˈɡeɪdʒ/Verb Forms- to succeed in attracting and keeping somebody’s attention and interest
- It is a movie that engages both the mind and the eye.
- Their pleas failed to engage any sympathy.
- to engage the public/audience/viewer/reader
- It was difficult to engage the students at first.
- The party is attempting to engage young voters politically.
- to employ a person, company, etc. to do a particular job
- She has aready engaged a lawyer.
- We will have to engage the services of a translator.
- He was immediately engaged as a consultant.
- Karl Böhm engaged her to sing in Vienna.
Extra Examples- Some of the directors wanted to engage another firm.
- They have engaged companies as subcontractors for the construction work
- The government engages charitable organizations to help in the distribution of food
- to become involved with and try to understand something/somebody
- She has the ability to engage with young minds.
Extra Examples- We acknowledge the need to engage directly with these problems.
- Our contributors are actively engaging with tradition.
- to begin fighting with somebody
- He ordered his men to engage the enemy.
- The fleet sailed out of Cadiz to engage with the enemy.
- when a part of a machine engages, or when you engage it, it fits together with another part of the machine and the machine begins to work
- The cogwheels are not engaging.
- One cogwheel engages with the next.
- Engage the clutch before selecting a gear.
Word Origin- late Middle English (formerly also as ingage): from French engager, ultimately from the base of gage, ‘a pledge or deposit offered as a guarantee’. The word originally meant ‘to pawn or pledge something’, later ‘pledge oneself (to do something)’, hence ‘enter into a contract’ (mid 16th cent.), ‘involve oneself in an activity’, ‘enter into combat’ (mid 17th cent.), giving rise to the notion ‘involve someone or something else’.
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