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engaged

engaged

2.9
Hired to do a particular job
  • adjective
  • /ɪnˈɡeɪdʒd/
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  • The consultant was engaged by the company to improve their marketing strategy.

Seva is a trade union of poor women engaged in countless different trades.

Examples

  • She was engaged as a project manager for the new software development.

  • Seva is a trade union of poor women engaged in countless different trades.

  • And top line leadership is engaged at all levels.

  • This will tell me how engaged you will be and how successful this event will be.

  • But I will say that what individual action does do is it causes people to become engaged in the issue itself.

  • And the people that I, that I saw as my models here on campus were people who were engaged in this issue.

  • You're going for people who are happily engaged in the center of the market doing productive work.

  • But, you know, I find myself in a place where I've got this, this really loyal audience that's super engaged, a ton of attention.

  • They hired a specialist who is engaged in renewable energy research.

Synonyms

hired
vsengaged
1.1

A person paid to do a job for someone

focuses on being brought in for a particular task rather than the payment aspect
employed
vsengaged
1.0

Having a paid job

refers to being assigned to a specific job rather than just holding a job
working
vsengaged
1.0

Having a job and earning money from it

describes being taken on for a particular task rather than ongoing employment activity

Antonyms

274 1.7

Without work and looking for a job

Idioms

Busy with something else and not available

Surface Forms

engaged positive

Morphology

engaged = engage (transparent) = engage + ed

Adjectival/past-participial formation from the verb 'engage' meaning 'to hire or employ', so 'engaged' = 'hired' is directly derived.

Etymology

Engaged comes from an old French idea: en- 'in' plus gage 'pledge', so it first meant someone 'bound' to do a task. That's why engaged can mean 'hired' or officially set to work.