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to engage

to engage

30 3.9
To interact with users or content on social media
  • verb
  • /ɪnˈɡeɪdʒ/
  • Texting
translation icon : interactuar con
  • 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.

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Examples

  • So you didn't have that opportunity to engage with your fans the way we did.

  • And we wanted to engage with the science museums.

  • Where can people follow along with you, engage with you online?

  • And I engage with them about that.

  • Whose responsibility is it to engage with young people, Sarah?

  • 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.

  • 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 engage their fans
vsto engage
3.5

To talk to and share things with fans to keep them interested

focuses on online actions to attract attention or provoke responses

Antonyms

1.0

Choose not to pay attention to someone or something

82 5.3

To stop being part of or connected to something

Idioms

1 4.2

Think carefully before you speak or act

Phrasal Verbs

4.8

Take part in friendly playful talk that makes jokes and teases

To talk to and share things with fans to keep them interested

How Interactive

to message
  • Texting
26 2.3
to comment
589 1.7
to engage
  • Texting
30 3.9
share
  • Texting
111 3.1
view
  • Texting
80 3.0

Surface Forms

engage infinitive
engaged past
engaged past participle
engaging present participle
engages third person singular

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.