Synonyms: booking, engagement
Definition: employment for performers or performing groups that lasts for a limited period of time
Usage: the play had bookings throughout the summer
Similar words: work, employment
Definition: the occupation for which you are paid
Usage: he is looking for employment; a lot of people are out of work
Synonyms: conflict, battle, engagement, fight
Definition: a hostile meeting of opposing military forces in the course of a war
Usage: Grant won a decisive victory in the battle of Chickamauga; he lost his romantic ideas about war when he got into a real engagement
Similar words: action, military action
Definition: a military engagement
Usage: he saw action in Korea
Synonyms: employment, engagement
Definition: the act of giving someone a job
Similar words: action
Definition: something done (usually as opposed to something said)
Usage: there were stories of murders and other unnatural actions
Synonyms: participation, involution, involvement, engagement
Definition: the act of sharing in the activities of a group
Usage: the teacher tried to increase his students' engagement in class activities
Similar words: group action
Definition: action taken by a group of people
Synonyms: troth, engagement, betrothal
Definition: a mutual promise to marry
Similar words: promise
Definition: a verbal commitment by one person to another agreeing to do (or not to do) something in the future
Synonyms: mesh, meshing, interlocking, engagement
Definition: contact by fitting together
Usage: the engagement of the clutch; the meshing of gears
Similar words: impinging, striking, contact
Definition: the physical coming together of two or more things
Usage: contact with the pier scraped paint from the hull
Synonyms: date, engagement, appointment
Definition: a meeting arranged in advance
Usage: she asked how to avoid kissing at the end of a date
Similar words: meeting, get together
Definition: a small informal social gathering
Usage: there was an informal meeting in my living room