engagement

engagement: engagement 1 Engagement, appointment, rendezvous, tryst, assignation, date mean a promise or an agreement to be in an agreed place at a specified time, usually for a particular purpose.

Engagement is the general term usable in place of any of the others

{
he has no business engagements for the rest of the week
}

{
an engagement to play golf at four o'clock
}

{
the lecturer can make no more engagements for the season
}

Appointment is applied chiefly to an engagement with a person who because of the exigencies of his office, his profession, or his position in life must keep a calendar and apportion his time carefully among those who wish to consult him professionally or confer with him

{
the governor sees visitors only by appointment
}

{
the doctor's secretary said it was impossible to make an appointment before Thursday
}

Rendezvous may designate a place agreed upon for the meeting of persons, often a group of persons

{
the old soldiers made the town hall their rendezvous
}

but it usually connotes a pledge or covenant (often an implicit one) to meet something or someone that cannot be escaped without violation of one's honor

{
this generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny— Roosevelt
}

Tryst is chiefly poetic; like rendezvous, it may designate the place of meeting (which, however, is more often termed trysting place) as well as the agreement to meet at a certain place, but the latter is the commoner denotation of tryst

{
a lovers' tryst
}

{
hurrying to keep their tryst in the wood
}

Assignation usually denotes a lovers' tryst, but it commonly conveys a suggestion of an illicit love or of a clandestine meeting

{
make assignations for them with ladies of the street— Shaw
}

Date is used especially of casual engagements between friends or of an agreed meeting between a young man and young woman

{
remembering suddenly he had a riding date with Major Thompson's wife at 12:30— James Jones
}

2 *battle, action

Analogous words: *encounter, skirmish, brush: *contest, conflict, combat, fight

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Engagement — Engagement … Deutsch Wörterbuch
ENGAGEMENT — L’engagement peut être entendu au sens de «conduite» ou au sens d’«acte de décision», selon qu’il désigne un mode d’existence dans et par lequel l’individu est impliqué activement dans le cours du monde, s’éprouve responsable de ce qui arrive,… … Encyclopédie Universelle
Engagement — Saltar a navegación, búsqueda El engagement, es un concepto que generalmente se considera como la dirección de un esfuerzo voluntario, esto es, cuando los trabajadores tienen oportunidades, actúan de una forma que va más allá de los intereses de… … Wikipedia Español
engagement — ENGAGEMENT. s. masc. L action d engager, ou l effet de cette action. Tenir une terre par engagement. Ce n est qu un engagement, il n en a pas lapropriété. [b]f♛/b] On appelle Engagement, Une Seigneurie engagée, un Domaine engagé. Cette Terre est… … Dictionnaire de l'Académie Française 1798
engagement — en‧gage‧ment [ɪnˈgeɪdʒmənt] noun formal 1. [countable, uncountable] HUMAN RESOURCES when you arrange to employ someone or to pay someone to do something for you: • the engagement of supply teachers by schools ˌterms of enˈgagement [plural] … Financial and business terms
Engagement — [ãgaʒəˈmãː] (frz. engagement ‚Verpflichtung, Einsatz‘) ist: Soziales Engagement, freiwilliges und ehrenamtliches soziales Handeln intensiver persönlicher Einsatz für eine Sache, ähnlich auch Anstrengung die vertragliche Verpflichtung eines… … Deutsch Wikipedia
engagement — Engagement. subst. masc. v. L action d engager. Tenir une terre par engagement. ce n est qu un engagement, il n en a pas la proprieté. Il signifie fig. Une promesse, un attachement, une obligation qui est cause que l on n est plus en liberté de… … Dictionnaire de l'Académie française
Engagement — En*gage ment, n. [Cf. F. engagement.] 1. The act of engaging, pledging, enlisting, occupying, or entering into contest. [1913 Webster] 2. The state of being engaged, pledged or occupied; specif., a pledge to take some one as husband or wife.… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
engagement — I (appointment) noun adventure, application, assignation, assurance, commitment, competition, contract, covenant, duty, encounter, enlistment, enterprise, interaction, interaffiliation, interplay, interview, involvement, meeting, obligation,… … Law dictionary
Engagement — Sn Einsatz, Anstellung erw. fremd. Erkennbar fremd (17. Jh.) Entlehnung. Entlehnt aus frz. engagement m., einer Ableitung von frz. engager verpflichten , eigentlich in Sold nehmen , zu frz. gage m. Pfand, Lohn und en . In der Bedeutung politische … Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen sprache

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