engagement

Noun

• the act of sharing in the activities of a group
  • the teacher tried to increase his students' engagement in class activities
    

• contact by fitting together
  • the engagement of the clutch
    
  • the meshing of gears
    

• employment for performers or performing groups that lasts for a limited period of time
  • the play had bookings throughout the summer
    

• the act of giving someone a job

• a mutual promise to marry

• a meeting arranged in advance
  • she asked how to avoid kissing at the end of a date
    

• a hostile meeting of opposing military forces in the course of a war
  • Grant won a decisive victory in the battle of Chickamauga
    
  • he lost his romantic ideas about war when he got into a real engagement
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  participation , involvement , involution , mesh , meshing , interlocking , booking , employment , betrothal , troth , date , appointment , battle , conflict , fight
• Antonyms: 
  non-engagement , nonparticipation , non-involvement