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

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.

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.

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.

3 days ago · engage (third-person singular simple present engages, present participle engaging, simple past and past participle engaged) To interact socially. (transitive) To engross or hold …

We've recently engaged a cleaner. She has been known to engage the services of a professional shopper. For these services he would otherwise have to engage a psychotherapist. A …

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

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

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. …

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