Synonyms for engagement

Synonyms for (noun) engagement

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


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