engagement :: Lexipedia - Where words have meaning

booking

n. employment for performers or performing groups that lasts for a limited period of time; "the play had bookings throughout the summer"

fight, battle

n. a hostile meeting of opposing military forces in the course of a war; "Grant won a decisive victory in the battle of Chickamauga"; "he lost his romantic ideas about war when he got into a real engagement"

employment, hire, hiring

n. the act of giving someone a job

involvement, participation

n. the act of sharing in the activities of a group; "the teacher tried to increase his students' engagement in class activities"

betrothal, troth

n. a mutual promise to marry

appointment, date

n. a meeting arranged in advance; "she asked how to avoid kissing at the end of a date"

mesh, meshing, interlock, interlocking

n. the act of interlocking or meshing; "an interlocking of arms by the police held the crowd in check"

fight, bout

n. a boxing or wrestling match; "the fight was on television last night"

hostilities, belligerency

n. fighting; acts of overt warfare; "the outbreak of hostilities"

campaign, military campaign

n. several related operations aimed at achieving a particular goal (usually within geographical and temporal constraints)

brush, encounter, clash, skirmish

n. a minor short-term fight

aggressiveness, contentiousness, belligerence, pugnacity, quarrelsomeness

n. disposition to fight

contravention

n. coming into conflict with

disagreement

n. the speech act of disagreeing or arguing or disputing

affray, altercation, fracas

n. noisy quarrel

tilt, contention, argument, controversy, contestation, arguing

n. a contentious speech act; a dispute where there is strong disagreement; "they were involved in a violent argument"

fight, combat, fighting

n. the act of fighting; any contest or struggle; "a fight broke out at the hockey game"; "there was fighting in the streets"; "the unhappy couple got into a terrible scrap"

row, quarrel, words, wrangle, run-in, dustup

n. an angry dispute; "they had a quarrel"; "they had words"

opening

n. becoming open or being made open; "the opening of his arms was the sign I was waiting for"

interaction

n. a mutual or reciprocal action; interacting

conformity, accord, accordance

n. concurrence of opinion; "we are in accord with your proposal"

agreement

n. the verbal act of agreeing

brush, encounter, clash, skirmish

n. a minor short-term fight

encounter, confrontation, showdown

n. a hostile disagreement face-to-face

dispute, difference of opinion

n. a disagreement or argument about something important; "he had a dispute with his wife"; "there were irreconcilable differences"; "the familiar conflict between Republicans and Democrats"

banns

n. a public announcement of a proposed marriage

oath, vow, swearing

n. a commitment to tell the truth (especially in a court of law); to lie under oath is to become subject to prosecution for perjury

assignation, tryst, rendezvous

n. a meeting planned at a certain time and place

separation

n. the social act of separating or parting company; "the separation of church and state"

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