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en·gaged

(ĕn-gājd′)

adj.

1. Employed, occupied, or busy.

2. Committed, as to a cause.

3. Pledged to marry; betrothed: an engaged couple.

4. Involved in conflict or battle.

5. Being in gear; meshed.

6. Partly embedded in, built into, or attached to another part, as columns on a wall.

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engaged

(ɪnˈɡeɪdʒd)

adj

1. pledged to be married; betrothed

2. employed, occupied, or busy

3. (Architecture) architect built against or attached to a wall or similar structure: an engaged column.

4. (Telecommunications) (of a telephone line) already in use

engagedly adv

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en•gaged

(ɛnˈgeɪdʒd)

adj.

1. busy or occupied.

2. pledged to be married; betrothed: an engaged couple.

3. committed or involved.

4. involved in conflict with.

a. (of gears) interlocked.

b. (of wheels) in gear with each other.

6. built so as to be or appear to be attached to or partly embedded in a wall: an engaged column.

[1605–15]

en•gag′ed•ly, adv.

en•gag′ed•ness, n.

engaged

When two people have agreed to marry each other, or have announced formally that they are going to be married, you can say that they are engaged.

They were not officially engaged.

...an engaged couple.

You can also say that each person is engaged.

He's just got engaged.

As an engaged girl, she would be unable to accept invitations from other men.

You say that someone is engaged to the person they are going to marry.

Sonny was formally engaged to Sandra.

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engaged

(phone line) busy

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Adj.	1.	engaged - having ones attention or mind or energy engaged; "she keeps herself fully occupied with volunteer activities"; "deeply engaged in conversation" occupied busy - actively or fully engaged or occupied; "busy with her work"; "a busy man"; "too busy to eat lunch"
	2.	engaged - involved in military hostilities; "the desperately engaged ships continued the fight" involved - connected by participation or association or use; "we accomplished nothing, simply because of the large number of people involved"; "the problems involved"; "the involved muscles"; "I don't want to get involved"; "everyone involved in the bribery case has been identified"
	3.	engaged - reserved in advance booked, set-aside reserved - set aside for the use of a particular person or party
	4.	engaged - (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); "her line is busy"; "receptionists' telephones are always engaged"; "the lavatory is in use"; "kept getting a busy signal" in use, busy occupied - held or filled or in use; "she keeps her time well occupied"; "the wc is occupied"
	5.	engaged - (used of toothed parts or gears) interlocked and interacting; "the gears are engaged"; "meshed gears"; "intermeshed twin rotors" intermeshed, meshed geared - equipped with or connected by gears or having gears engaged
	6.	engaged - having services contracted for; "the carpenter engaged (or employed) for the job is sick" employed - having your services engaged for; or having a job especially one that pays wages or a salary; "most of our graduates are employed"
	7.	engaged - built against or attached to a wall; "engaged columns" architecture - the discipline dealing with the principles of design and construction and ornamentation of fine buildings; "architecture and eloquence are mixed arts whose end is sometimes beauty and sometimes use" connected - joined or linked together

engaged

adjective

1. occupied, working, involved, committed, employed, busy, absorbed, tied up, preoccupied, engrossed the various projects he was engaged on

2. betrothed, promised, pledged, affianced, promised in marriage He was engaged to Miss Julia Boardman.
betrothed free, available, unattached, uncommitted, fancy-free

3. in use, busy, tied up, unavailable We tried to phone you back but the line was engaged.
in use free, available

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engaged

adjective

1. Involved in activity or work:

busy, employed, occupied.

2. Pledged to marry:

affianced, betrothed, intended, plighted.

Translations

مَخْطوب، مَخْطوبَهمُشَغَّل، مُنْشَغِلمَشْغول مَشْغُول

zapojený

beskæftigetforlovetoptaget af

beschäftigt besetzt verlobt

δεσμευμένος

ocupado prometido comprometido

kiireinen

occupé fiancé

uključen u

eljegyzett

taka òátt ítrúlofaîurupptekinn

occupato impegnato fidanzato

婚約している

바쁜

betrokken

ansatt i beskjeftiget med opptatt

zajęty

envolvido

занятой

zasnúbený

zaročenzaseden

upptagen

มีส่วนร่วม

dolu meşgulmeşgûlnişanlı

mắc bận

使用中的占线的参加...工作已订婚约的无空的

engaged

[ɪnˈgeɪdʒd]

A. ADJ

1. to be engaged (= busy) [seat, person] → estar ocupado (Brit) [toilet] → estar ocupado
to be engaged in → estar ocupado en, dedicarse a
what are you engaged in? → ¿a qué se dedica Vd?

2. (Brit) (Telec) to be engaged → estar comunicando or (LAm) ocupado

3. to be engaged (to be married) → estar prometido; [2 persons] → estar prometidos, ser novios
they've been engaged for two years → llevan dos años de relaciones formales
to get engaged → prometerse (to con) the engaged couple → los novios

B. CPD engaged signal, engaged tone N → señal f de comunicando or (LAm) ocupado

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engaged

[ɪnˈgeɪdʒd] adj

(British) (= busy, in use) [toilet] → occupé(e); [phone, line] → occupé(e)
I phoned, but it was engaged → J'ai téléphoné, mais c'était occupé.

(= occupied) [person] to be engaged in research → faire de la recherche
to be engaged in a survey → faire une enquête
to be engaged in doing sth → être occupé(e) à faire qch

(= betrothed) → fiancé(e)
to be engaged to sb → être fiancé(e) à qn
She's engaged to Brian → Elle est fiancée à Brian.
to get engaged → se fiancer
to get engaged to sb → se fiancer à qnengaged tone n (British) (on the phone) → tonalité f "occupé"

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engaged

adj

(= betrothed) engaged (to be married) → verlobt (to mit); the engaged couple → die Verlobten pl; to get or become engaged (to somebody) → sich (mit jdm) verloben

toilet, seat, taxi → besetzt; (Brit Telec) line, number, telephone → besetzt

(form: = busy) person → beschäftigt; to be otherwise engaged (at future time) → etwas anderes vorhaben; (at present) → anderweitig beschäftigt sein; to be engaged in something → mit etw beschäftigt sein; in criminal activities → in etw (acc) → verwickelt sein; the parties engaged in the dispute → die am Streit beteiligten Parteien; to be engaged in doing something → dabei sein, etw zu tun; we are actively engaged in trying to find a solution → wir bemühen uns aktiv um eine Lösung; to be engaged on something → mit etw befasst or beschäftigt sein

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engaged

[ɪnˈgeɪdʒd] adj

a. (to be married) → fidanzato/a
to get engaged → fidanzarsi

b. (occupied) to be engaged in doing sth → essere impegnato/a a fare qc
she is engaged in research/a survey → si occupa di ricerca/di un'inchiesta
to be engaged on sth → occuparsi di qc

c. (Brit) (phone number, lavatory) → occupato/a

engage

(inˈgeidʒ) verb

1. to begin to employ (a workman etc). He engaged him as his assistant.

2. to book; to reserve. He has engaged an entertainer for the children's party.

3. to take hold of or hold fast; to occupy. to engage someone's attention.

4. to join battle with. The two armies were fiercely engaged.

5. to (cause part of a machine etc to) fit into and lock with another part. The driver engaged second gear.

enˈgaged adjective

1. bound by promise (especially to marry). She became engaged to John.

2. (with in) employed or occupied. She is engaged in social work.

3. busy; not free; occupied. Please come if you are not already engaged for that evening; The room / telephone line is engaged.

enˈgagement noun

the engagement of three new assistants; When shall we announce our engagement?; Have you any engagements tomorrow?; a naval engagement (= battle); (also adjective) an engagement ring.

enˈgaging adjective

attractive. an engaging smile.

engaged

→ مَشْغُول zapojený optaget af beschäftigt δεσμευμένος comprometido, ocupado kiireinen occupé uključen u occupato 婚約している 바쁜 betrokken opptatt zajęty envolvido занятой upptagen มีส่วนร่วม meşgul mắc bận 使用中的

engaged

a. encajado-a, ajustado-a, conectado-a; [undertaken] comprometido-a.

I'm engaged → أَنا خاطبٌ → Jsem zasnoubený → Jeg er forlovet → Ich bin verlobt → Estoy prometido → Olen kihloissa → Je suis fiancé → Ja sam zaručen → Sono fidanzato → 私は婚約しています → 약혼했어요 → Ik ben verloofd → Jeg er forlovet → Jestem zaręczony → Eu estou noivo → Я помолвлен → Jag är förlovad → Nişanlıyım → Tôi hứa hôn rồi → 我已订婚
It's busy (US)
It's engaged (UK) → Je obsazeno → Der er optaget → Es ist besetzt → Está comunicando → Numero on varattu → C'est occupé → Zauzeto je → È occupato → お話し中です → 통화 중이에요 → Het nummer is in gesprek → Det er opptatt → Numer jest zajęty → Está ocupado → Занято → Det är upptaget → สายไม่ว่าง → Hat meşgul → Máy bận → 占线

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He was not practically experienced in the Indian trade; that is to say, he had never made any expeditions of traffic into the heart of the wilderness, but he had been engaged in commerce at St.

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You always stand a better chance if you're engaged by the firm already."

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For a hundred years now no British fleet has engaged the enemy in line of battle.

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They are now on terms of the most particular friendship, frequently engaged in long conversations together; and she has contrived by the most artful coquetry to subdue his judgment to her own purposes.

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Weston; "an engagement a positive engagement.What will you say, Emmawhat will any body say, when it is known that Frank Churchill and Miss Fairfax are engaged;nay, that they have been long engaged!"

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Dudley fell for her right away, and she must have fallen for him, for they had only known each other for a few weeks when they came and told me they were engaged. It happened last Sunday.'

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There they would remain hour after hour, chatting, smoking, eating poee-poee, or busily engaged in sleeping for the good of their constitutions.

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They were two men who were seated in easy attitudes upon the grass, and so busily engaged as to be at first unconscious of intruders.

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Inquiries next morning brought the information, from the head of a rubber exporting firm with whom the professor was acquainted, that the Spaniard was regularly engaged in transporting parties into the interior, and was considered efficient, careful and as honest as pos- sible, considering the men he engaged as workers.

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Elinor said no more; it immediately struck her that she must then be writing to Willoughby; and the conclusion which as instantly followed was, that, however mysteriously they might wish to conduct the affair, they must be engaged. This conviction, though not entirely satisfactory, gave her pleasure, and she continued her letter with greater alacrity.

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And, without wishing to offer any remarks on the employments of others, I may state that it was my conviction that I could not do better than continue in that in which I was engaged, viz., in devoting my whole life to the culture of my reason, and in making the greatest progress I was able in the knowledge of truth, on the principles of the method which I had prescribed to myself.

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About noon I passed low over a great dead city of ancient Mars, and as I skimmed out across the plain beyond I came full upon several thousand green warriors engaged in a terrific battle.