Engagement

Definition

engagement /Çn'geÇdʒmǝnt/ n ၁။ [C] ေစ့စပ္ေၾကာင္းလမ္း ျခင္း။ Their engagement was announced in the local paper. ၂။ [C] ခ်ိန္းဆိုခ်က္။ အခ်ိန္းအခ်က္။ ပြဲခ်ိန္း။ I have very few engagements (for) next week. ❍ The orchestra has several concert engagements. ၃။ [C, U] ( fml ) တိုက္ပြဲ။ The general tried to avoid (an) engagement with the enemy. ၄။ [U, sing] ဆက္စပ္မႈ။ ပတ္သက္မႈ။ his engagement with theology ❍ a continuing engagement with the problems of the inner city. ၅။ [U] ခန္႔ထားျခင္း။ ငွားရမ္းျခင္း။ the engagement of three new assistants. ၆။ [U]စက္အစိတ္အပိုင္းမ်ား အံကိုက္လႈပ္ရွား လည္ပတ္ျခင္း။ after engagement of the clutch. ❏ engagement ring n ေစ့စပ္လက္စြပ္။

Examples

1. [break off an engagement] : Miranda has not met any other man since she broke off their engagement.
2. A long engagement
3. Official engagements take up about 50% of his time.
4. I’m afraid I have a previous lunch engagement.
5. Heavy engagements are reported between rebels and government forces.
6. The rules of engagement
7. [engagement with] : Participants assess their level of engagement with their child’s feelings.