engage
- Even in prison, he continued to engage in criminal activities.
engage someone in
- Get your boss engaged in your success,… (Shortcut to Promotion, Spicus)
engage something
関心を引く
- Their pleas failed to engage any sympathy.
物事が時間などを要する
- The major project which currently engages most of my time and attention … (White House Conference on the Humanities, 1978)
engage someone
没頭させる
- Designing something engages me for hours.
- Her innocence engaged him.
《再帰》取り組む
- He regretted that US President Barack Obama had not personally engaged himself to deal with the Afghan crisis, ... (Daily Times, 2016)
予約する、雇う
- I've engaged a table at an Italian restaurant.〔※予約時には"I'd like to reserve a room" などreserveが普通〕
- They engaged a consultant to review their business plan.
- We will have to engage the services of a translator.
婚約する
- He is engaged to Mary. 〔※このengagedは形容詞とも考えられる〕
- They are engaged to be married
(歯車などを)かみ合わせる
- Engage the clutch when you release the clutch pedal.
- The cogwheels/gears are not engaging.
交戦する vt vi
- We have engaged the enemy.
- The armies engaged at dawn.
vt《古》[+ to do] することを約束する =assume an obligation, agree
- … hereby engages to abstain from every manner of ... (1876)
engage with に関与する、関わる
- …is found to have the ability to engage with young minds. (John Spink, 1989)
- The United States will also be engaging with the Trans-Pacific Partnership countries… (Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States, 2009)
engaged adj. 1 婚約している 2 している最中の、忙しくしている 3 予約済みの(部屋・席など)/使用中の
(参考・出典: Oxford Dictionary, Collins Dictionary, The American Heritage Dictionary)