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