{
    "term": "engagement",
    "partOfSpeech": "noun",
    "ox5000": true,
    "cefr": "c1",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "an agreement to marry somebody; the period during which two people are engaged",
            "sensetop": "engagement (to somebody)",
            "cefr": "c1",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "Their engagement was announced in the local paper."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She has **broken off her engagement** to Charles.",
                    "contextForm": "engagement (to somebody)"
                },
                {
                    "text": "an engagement party"
                },
                {
                    "text": "a long/short engagement"
                },
                {
                    "text": "He announced his engagement to his long-time girlfriend."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Life stages"],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["long", "broken"],
                "verb + engagement": ["announce", "celebrate", "break"],
                "engagement + noun": ["ring", "party"],
                "preposition": ["engagement to"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "an arrangement to do something at a particular time, especially something official or something connected with your job",
            "cefr": "c1",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "an **engagement book/diary**"
                },
                {
                    "text": "He has a number of social engagements next week."
                },
                {
                    "text": "It was her first **official engagement**."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I had to refuse because of a **prior engagement**."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I don't keep an engagement diary these days."
                },
                {
                    "text": "It is important that I keep this engagement."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The president fell ill and was forced to cancel all public engagements."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The chairman will carry out no official public engagements during the month of August."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Mrs Meyer regrets that she is unable to attend owing to a previous engagement."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He had an important engagement with his financial adviser."
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["previous", "prior", "important"],
                "verb + engagement": ["have", "keep", "carry out"],
                "preposition": ["engagement with"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 3,
            "definition": "being involved with somebody/something in an attempt to understand them/it",
            "sensetop": "engagement (with somebody/something)engagement (in something)",
            "labels": "(formal)",
            "cefr": "c1",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "Her views are based on years of engagement with the problems of the inner city.",
                    "contextForm": "engagement (with somebody/something)"
                },
                {
                    "text": "the lack of engagement in politics",
                    "contextForm": "engagement (in something)"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Her church promoted civic engagement."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Higher education can contribute to civic engagement."
                },
                {
                    "text": "his serious intellectual engagement with this issue"
                },
                {
                    "text": "the decline in political engagement"
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["constructive", "effective", "active"],
                "verb + engagement": ["encourage", "promote", "facilitate"],
                "preposition": ["engagement in", "engagement with"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 4,
            "definition": "fighting between two armies, etc.",
            "labels": "(specialist)",
            "cefr": "c2",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "The general tried to avoid an engagement with the enemy."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["War and conflict"]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 5,
            "definition": "an arrangement to employ somebody; the process of employing somebody",
            "labels": "(British English)",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "The terms of engagement are to be agreed in writing."
                }
            ]
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ɪnˈɡeɪdʒmənt/",
                "audio": "en/engagement/engagement__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ɪnˈɡeɪdʒmənt/",
                "audio": "en/engagement/engagement__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "early 17th cent. (in the general sense ‘a legal or moral obligation’): French, from engager ‘to pledge’."
}