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engage
verb as in hire for job, use
Strong matches
appoint, bespeak, book, charter, commission, contract, enroll, ink, lease, place, prearrange, rent, reserve, retain, secure
Weak matches
bring on board, come on board, put on, sign on, sign up, take on, truck with
verb as in occupy oneself; engross
verb as in promise to marry
verb as in start a fight; attack
Weak matches
do battle with, fall on, give battle to, join battle with, take on
Example Sentences
Over time, as you keep noticing the behavior, you may decide not to engage in it.
Meanwhile, the Brazilian government has engaged in its own lengthy legal battle in federal court to try to repatriate the gemstone.
“President Trump campaigned on firing rogue bureaucrats who have engaged in the illegal weaponization of our American justice system, and the American people can expect he will deliver on that promise,” she told the outlet.
Combs is charged with leading an enterprise with a persistent pattern of racketeering activity from 2008 to 2024 that included Combs and his co-conspirators engaging in kidnapping, arson, and forced labor.
Over the course of that relationship their daughter was said to have been “a happy, healthy, engaging and contented child” and there was “absolutely no suggestion of anything other than good parenting”.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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