engaged
Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
engaged/ɪnˈɡeɪʤd/
▶adjective
- 1 busy; occupied.
■ Brit. (of a telephone line) unavailable because already in use.
- 2 having formally agreed to marry.
- 3 Architecture (of a column) attached to or partly let into a wall.
'engaged' also found in these Oxford entries:
action
- affiance
- belligerent
- betroth
- boffin
- buoyant
- business
- busy
- carry
- chemist
- coalface
- co-belligerent
- combatant
- commercial
- competitor
- consult
- contraband
- corps
- creative
- curate
- deadbolt
- documentalist
- duty
- -eer
- engagement
- espouse
- extra
- fiancé
- fiddle
- field
- financier
- fund-raiser
- Gadarene
- game
- gangbuster
- gear
- gunrunner
- hors concours
- Indiaman
- involve
- job
- liner
- march
- militant
- non-belligerent
- non-combatant
- off season
- on
- pensive
