engagement

1
as in betrothal
the act or state of being engaged to be married the fun couple recently announced their engagement

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2
as in appointment
an agreement to be present at a specified time and place a lifelong practice of marking all of my engagements on a weekly calendar

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Recent Examples of engagement Shakira had two other stops on the mid-year boxscores chart: a two-day February engagement at Estadio Nacional in Lima, Peru, that grossed $13.2 million (landing the No. 26 spot) and a two-day stop at Campo Argentino de Polo in Buenos Aires that grossed $13.2 million (landing the No. 27 spot). Dave Brooks, Billboard, 30 May 2025 The partnership also includes the launch of a travel guide featuring itineraries and tourist experiences inspired by top-performing Netflix titles with strong local and global engagement – titles that reflect the main cultural assets Embratur aims to promote. Marcelo Cajueiro, Variety, 30 May 2025 At the time, Geary shared details from the second engagement, including photos, on Instagram. Sabienna Bowman, People.com, 30 May 2025 Duties include driving client engagements, leveraging financial expertise and participating in business development activities. Brayden Garcia, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 30 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for engagement
Recent Examples of Synonyms for engagement
Noun
  • The couple posted from Paris, where the betrothal appears to have gone down.
    Christie D’Zurilla, Los Angeles Times, 12 May 2025
  • Here, a look back at more than 150 years of royal betrothals, and the stones used to mark them.
    Hayley Maitland, Vogue, 13 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Her appointment comes as the company’s outgoing Chief Content Officer Sachin Doshi is stepping down from his role in September, but will take a seat on Podimo’s board.
    Peter White, Deadline, 22 May 2025
  • Such appointments are non-paid and allow individuals to hold on to a private sector job.
    Nora Gámez Torres, Miami Herald, 22 May 2025
Noun
  • The lawsuit accuses YouTube of inducing Connolly into breaching the employment agreement.
    Winston Cho, HollywoodReporter, 22 May 2025
  • Limiting employment authorization for OPT or STEM OPT to only when students carry their full course load would cause these numbers to plummet and significantly reduce the number of international students who gain H-1B status, including by eliminating STEM OPT, which follows the completion of OPT.
    Stuart Anderson, Forbes.com, 22 May 2025
Noun
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    Anthony Robledo, USA Today, 25 May 2025
  • Tuition is $525 for applications submitted by June 30 and $575 for submissions past that date.
    Mike Danahey, Chicago Tribune, 24 May 2025
Noun
  • Lowe’s employs about 300,000 people, mostly hourly.
    Catherine Muccigrosso, Charlotte Observer, 21 May 2025
  • Detailing his gofer duties today to the court, Kaplan is known to have left Combs’ employ after a year, in some part due to the violence he is said to have seen.
    Dominic Patten, Deadline, 21 May 2025
Noun
  • That, in turn, scuttled the main objective of the mission — having the Otter rendezvous with the Launcher tug down the road.
    Mike Wall, Space.com, 21 May 2025
  • The idea the experience sparks — a titillating rendezvous with the naked man at the bottom of her sake glass, Jane would never — is enough to kickstart her writing, at least to spit out some very promising pages.
    Kate Erbland, IndieWire, 20 May 2025

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“Engagement.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/engagement. Accessed 3 Jun. 2025.

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