being engaged in

  • 1Engaged (play) — Engaged is a three act farcical comedy by W. S. Gilbert. It premiered at the Haymarket Theatre on October 3 1877, the same year as The Sorcerer , one of Gilbert s comic operas written with Arthur Sullivan, which was soon followed by the… …

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  • 2engaged — en‧gaged [ɪnˈgeɪdʒd] adjective a telephone that is engaged is being used; = busy AmE: • I can t get through her line s engaged. • Every time I call I get the engaged tone (= the sound you hear when the telephone is engaged ) . * * * …

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  • 3Being and Nothingness — Being and Nothingness: An Essay on Phenomenological Ontology (French: L Être et le néant : Essai d ontologie phénoménologique ), sometimes subtitled A Phenomenological Essay on Ontology, is a 1943 philosophical treatise by Jean Paul Sartre that… …

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  • 4being attached — being joined, being connected; being enamored; being married or engaged …

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  • 5engaged in military service — Being in the military service. Bradshaw v Farmers & Bankers Life Ins. Co. 107 Kan 681, 193 P 332, 11 ALR 1091, 1096. Having passed the examination or examinations, having taken the oath, having been enrolled, and having become subject to the… …

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  • 6engaged — [[t]ɪnge͟ɪʤd[/t]] 1) ADJ: v link ADJ in/on n Someone who is engaged in or engaged on a particular activity is doing that thing. [FORMAL] The police said they found the three engaged in target practice. ...the various projects he was engaged on.… …

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  • 7engaged — adjective 1 having agreed to get married: They ve been engaged for six months. (+ to): Have you met the man she s engaged to? | get engaged (=agree to marry someone): Siobhan and Ray have just got engaged. 2 BrE an engaged telephone is being… …

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  • 8engaged — en|gaged [ınˈgeıdʒd] adj 1.) if two people are engaged, they have agreed to marry ▪ Have you heard? Sally and Ray are getting engaged . ▪ She is engaged to be married . engaged to ▪ Kate s engaged to a guy from England. 2.) BrE if you call… …

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  • 9engaged */*/ — UK [ɪnˈɡeɪdʒd] / US adjective 1) formal involved in doing something engaged in: Her team knew they were engaged in work of great importance. 2) if two people are engaged, they have formally agreed to get married How long have you been engaged?… …

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  • 10engaged workaholic — n. A person who works compulsively because he or she loves their job. engaged workaholism n. Example Citations: Though unhappy clock watchers...may be tempted to call her a workaholic endangering health, psyche and personal life by being too… …

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