engaged

en·gaged  (n-gjd)

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

Adjective

1. having made a promise to get married

2. (of a telephone line or a toilet) already being used

Thesaurus

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

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engaged

adjective 1. occupied, working, involved, committed, employed, busy, absorbed, tied up, preoccupied, engrossed

adjective 2. betrothed, promised, pledged, affianced, promised in marriage << OPPOSITE unattached

3. in use, busy, tied up, unavailable << OPPOSITE free

Translations

engaged [ɪnˈgeɪdʒd] adj (BRIT) (= busy, in use); ocupado (= betrothed); prometido;

to get engaged → prometerse;

he is engaged in research → se dedica a la investigación

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engaged [ɪnˈgeɪdʒd] adj (Brit) (= busy, in use); occupé(e) (= betrothed); fiancé(e);

to get engaged → se fiancer;

the line's engaged → la ligne est occupée;

he is engaged in research/a survey → il fait de la recherche/une enquête

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engaged [ɪnˈgeɪdʒd] engage adj → verlobt;

(Brit) (busy, in use) → besetzt;

to get engaged engage → sich verloben;

he is engaged in research/a survey engage → er ist mit Forschungsarbeit/einer Umfrage beschäftigt

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engaged [ɪnˈgeɪdʒd] adj (BRIT) (= busy, in use); occupato/a (= betrothed); fidanzato/a;

to get engaged → fidanzarsi