to engage
- verb
- /ɪnˈɡeɪdʒ/
- Texting
- I always like to engage with people on my social channels.
- engage users
- engage in social media
- engage with the audience
Especially after not engaging with my account for days.
- Especially after not engaging with my account for days.
- I always like to engage with people on my social channels.
- Thanks for engaging with our content, Patriot.
Examples
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So you didn't have that opportunity to engage with your fans the way we did.
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And we wanted to engage with the science museums.
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Where can people follow along with you, engage with you online?
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And I engage with them about that.
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Whose responsibility is it to engage with young people, Sarah?
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The opportunity to engage users in a comfortable environment was also considered a significant advantage.
Academic text (2018) -
I'm willing to engage with her without judgement.
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Social media provides a channel for journalists to engage with the audience by interacting, following, and showing support.
Academic text (2016) -
The out-of-state vendor must interact with the state's market and engage in ongoing and continuous business activity.
Academic text (2017) -
I always like to engage with people on my social channels.
Synonyms
To talk to and share things with fans to keep them interested
Antonyms
Idioms
Phrasal Verbs
How Interactive
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Surface Forms
Morphology
engage = gage (opaque) = en + gage
The modern digital sense ('interact with online content') is a recent extension and cannot be predicted from the rare base 'gage'.
Etymology
A helpful way to remember the online sense of engage is to see it as getting people 'in' and 'promised' to react: en- 'in' + gage 'promise' gives the idea of making people take part and respond. So to engage users online is to get them to interact with your posts.