engaged
Engaged means fully occupied or having your full attention. An engaged reader really focuses on the words and maybe even jots down questions or comments in the pages' margins.
If you're busy or involved with something, you're engaged in it. A formal reply to an invitation to lunch might be, "I'm sorry, I'm otherwise engaged" — meaning you already have plans. Engaged often describes people who have committed to getting married. You can see this meaning in the word's origin, the French word engagier, meaning "to pledge."
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having one's attention or mind or energy engaged
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having services contracted for“the carpenter engaged (or employed) for the job is sick”
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employed
having your services engaged for; or having a job especially one that pays wages or a salary
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employed
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(of facilities such as telephones or lavatories) unavailable for use by anyone else or indicating unavailability; (`engaged' is a British term for a busy telephone line)
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(used of toothed parts or gears) interlocked and interacting“the gears are engaged”
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intermeshed, meshed
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geared
equipped with or connected by gears or having gears engaged
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geared
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reserved in advance
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involved in military hostilities“the desperately engaged ships continued the fight”
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involved
connected by participation or association or use
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involved
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built against or attached to a wall“engaged columns”
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connected
joined or linked together
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connected
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