engagement

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French engagement

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Engagement

Wikipedia engagement (plural engagements)

(countable) an appointment, especially to speak or perform
The lecturer has three speaking engagements this week.
(uncountable) connection or attachment
Check the gears for full engagement before turning the handle.
(countable or uncountable) the period of time when marriage is planned or promised
We are enjoying a long engagement, but haven't yet set a date.
In any situation of conflict, an actual instance of active hostilities.
The engagement resulted in many causualties.

After engagement it quickly became clear which of the fencers was going to prevail.
(fencing) the point at which the fencers are close enough to join blades, or to make an effective attack during an encounter.

Derived terms

engagement ring

Translations

an appointment, especially to speak or perform

Bulgarian: ангажимент (bg) m (angažiment)

German: Verpflichtung (de) f

connection or attachment

period of time when marriage is planned or promised

Arabic: خطبة (ar) (xíṭba) f, خطوبة (ar) (xuṭūba) f
Bulgarian: годеж (bg) m (godež)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 婚約 (cmn), 婚约 (cmn) (hūnyuē), 訂婚 (cmn), 订婚 (cmn) (dìnghūn)
Czech: zasnoubení (cs) n
Esperanto: fianĉiĝo (eo)
Finnish: kihlausaika (fi)
French: fiançailles (fr) f pl
German: Verlobung (de) f
Greek: μνηστεία (el) (mnesteia) f , αρραβώνας (el) (arrabonas) m
Hungarian: eljegyzés (hu)

Japanese: 婚約 (ja) (こんやく, kon'yaku)
Korean: 약혼 (ko) (yak-hon) (約婚 (ko))
Polish: zaręczyny (pl) f pl
Romanian: logodire (ro) f, logodnă (ro) f
Russian: помолвка (ru) (pomólvka) f , обручение (ru) (obručénije) n
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: веридба (sh) f

Roman: veridba (sh) f
Swedish: förlovning (sv) c
Turkish: nişan (tr)
Vietnamese: sự đính hôn (vi) (sự + 訂婚 (vi))

In any situation of conflict, an actual instance of active hostilities

Bulgarian: сражение (bg) n (sraženie)
German: Gefecht (de) n

Russian: сражение (ru) (sražénije) n

the point at which the fencers are close enough to join blades

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