The meaning of ENGAGED is involved in activity : occupied, busy. How to use engaged in a sentence.

Rescuers were engaged in a frantic all-night effort to reach the survivors before their supply of air ran out. So, what is this big research project you're engaged upon at the moment?

As an engaged girl, she would be unable to accept invitations from other men. You say that someone is engaged to the person they are going to marry.

Mechanics (of gears or the like) to interlock or cause to become interlocked: [~ + object] He engaged the clutch and sped off. [no object] The clutch engaged and the car sped off.

5 days ago · Black and white women writers assumed their mantle as engaged writers, as cultural and political critics.

Definition of engaged adjective in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.

ENGAGED definition: busy or occupied; involved. See examples of engaged used in a sentence.

From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English en‧gaged /ɪnˈɡeɪdʒd/ adjective 1 if two people are engaged, they have agreed to marry Have you heard? Sally and Ray are getting engaged. …

If a phone or a phone line is engaged, it is already being used by someone else so that you are unable to speak to the person you are phoning.

They recently got engaged (to be married). She's engaged to him. an engaged couple