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"receptionists' telephones are always engaged"adjective(of facilities such as telephones or lavatories) unavailable for use by anyone else or indicating unavailability; (`engaged' is a British term for a busy telephone line)
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"the gears are engaged"adjective(used of toothed parts or gears) interlocked and interacting
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"deeply engaged in conversation"adjectivehaving ones attention or mind or energy engaged
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adjectivereserved in advance
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"engaged columns"adjectivebuilt against or attached to a wall
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"the carpenter engaged (or employed) for the job is sick"adjectivehaving services contracted for
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"the desperately engaged ships continued the fight"adjectiveinvolved in military hostilities
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Definition that contains engaged
- fighting engaged in or ready for military or naval operations
- professional engaged in by members of a profession
- professional engaged in a profession or engaging in as a profession or means of livelihood
- alert engaged in or accustomed to close observation
- active engaged in or ready for military or naval operations
- active engaged in full-time work
- struggling engaged in a struggle to overcome especially poverty or obscurity
- amateur engaged in as a pastime
- militant engaged in war
- unpaid engaged in as a pastime