Main entry: 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
Main entry: 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
Main entry: employment, engagement
Definition: the act of giving someone a job
Main entry: 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
Main entry: troth, engagement, betrothal
Definition: a mutual promise to marry
Main entry: mesh, meshing, interlocking, engagement
Definition: contact by fitting together
Usage: the engagement of the clutch; the meshing of gears
Main entry: date, engagement, appointment
Definition: a meeting arranged in advance
Usage: she asked how to avoid kissing at the end of a date