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Engage Job Appoint Engaged Services Recognised Engineer Staff

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If you e_____ someone to do a particular job, you appoint them to do it.If you engage someone to do a particular job, you appoint them to do it.
We engaged the services of a recognised engineer.
He had been able to engage some staff.
word engage
full-definition
verb
If you engage in an activity, you do it or are actively involved with it.
It is important for children to have time to engage in family activities.
You can engage in croquet on the south lawn.
If something engages you or your attention or interest, it keeps you interested in it and thinking about it.
They never learned skills to engage the attention of the others.
If you engage someone in conversation, you have a conversation with them.
They tried to engage him in conversation.
We want to engage recognized leaders in discussion.
If you engage with something or with a group of people, you get involved with that thing or group and feel that you are connected with it or have real contact with it.
She found it hard to engage with office life.
I will keep blogging because it offers me a way to engage with readers.
And she, too, suffers from a lack of critical engagement with the literary texts.
If you engage someone to do a particular job, you appoint them to do it.
We engaged the services of a recognised engineer.
He had been able to engage some staff.
When a part of a machine or other mechanism engages or when you engage it, it moves into a position where it fits into something else.
Press the lever until you hear the catch engage.
...a lesson in how to engage the four-wheel drive.
When a military force engages the enemy, it attacks them and starts a battle .
It could engage the enemy beyond the range of hostile torpedoes.
inflections engagesengagingengagedengagement
cefr-level B2

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