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(noun) a job for performers or performing groups that lasts for a limited period of time; "the play had bookings throughout the summer" |
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Synonyms: booking |
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Related Words: employment, gig, job, work |
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(noun) sharing the activities of a group; "the teacher tried to increase his students' engagement in class activities" |
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Synonyms: involvement, participation |
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Related Words: commitment, group action, group participation, intercession, intervention |
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Antonyms: non-engagement |
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(noun) contact by fitting together; "the engagement of the clutch"; "the meshing of gears" |
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Synonyms: interlocking, mesh, meshing |
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Related Words: contact, impinging, striking |
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(noun) the act of giving someone a job |
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Synonyms: employment, hire, hiring |
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Related Words: action, booking, call-back, reservation, shape-up |
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(noun) a mutual promise to marry |
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Synonyms: betrothal, troth |
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Related Words: promise, ringing |
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(noun) a meeting arranged in advance; "she asked how to avoid kissing at the end of a date" |
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Synonyms: appointment, date |
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Related Words: blind date, get together, meeting, rendezvous, tryst |
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(noun) a hostile meeting of opposing military forces in the course of a war; "Grant won a decisive victory in the battle of Chickamauga"; "he lost his romantic ideas about war when he got into a real engagement" |
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Synonyms: battle, conflict, fight |
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Related Words: Armageddon, Battle of Britain, Drogheda, action, armed combat, assault, combat, military action, naval battle, pitched battle |
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