engagement: translation
noun
1 appointment
ADJECTIVE
▪ previous, prior
▪ Mrs Meyer regrets that she is unable to attend owing to a previous engagement.
▪ important
▪ business, official, public, social
▪ royal
▪ dinner, lunch
▪ speaking
VERB + ENGAGEMENT
▪ have
▪ keep
▪ It is important that I keep this engagement.
▪ carry out (formal, esp.BrE)
▪ The chairman will carry out no official public engagements during the month of August.
▪ cancel
▪ The president was forced to cancel all public engagements.
PREPOSITION
▪ engagement with
▪ He had an important engagement with his financial adviser.
2 agreement to get married
ADJECTIVE
▪ long
▪ broken
VERB + ENGAGEMENT
▪ announce
▪ celebrate
▪ break (esp. AmE), break off, cancel, end
ENGAGEMENT + NOUN
▪ ring
▪ party
PREPOSITION
▪ engagement to
▪ He announced his engagement to his long-time girlfriend.
3 being involved
ADJECTIVE
▪ constructive, effective
▪ active
▪ intense, passionate, serious
▪ his serious intellectual engagement with this issue
▪ creative, emotional, imaginative, intellectual
▪ civic (AmE), political
▪ Higher education can contribute to civic engagement.
▪ the decline in political engagement
VERB + ENGAGEMENT
▪ encourage, promote (esp. AmE)
▪ Her church promoted civic engagement. (AmE)
▪ facilitate (esp. AmE)
▪ increase
PREPOSITION
▪ engagement in
▪ the lack of engagement in politics
▪ engagement with
▪ Feminist criticism is a starting point for a deeper engagement with the text.