ENGAGEMENT

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Traducere în limba română

engagement substantiv

1. ocupaţie, treabă.

2. întâlnire, rendez-vous; invitaţie.

3. angajament, făgăduinţă, obligaţie;

to meet one’s engagements a-şi îndeplini obligaţiile, a-şi plăti datoriile;

to be under an engagement a fi legat printr-o obligaţie.

4. logodnă.

5. (mil.) luptă, ciocnire, încăierare.

6. (tehn.) angalare, angrenare; buclare; cuplare.

Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:

My father has recollected an engagement that takes our whole family away on Monday.

(Northanger Abbey, de Jane Austen)

He had, very soon after their engagement ceased, got employ: and all that he had told her would follow, had taken place.

(Persuasion, de Jane Austen)

In general their evenings were less engaged with friends than their mornings; but one complete dinner engagement, and out of the house too, there was no avoiding, though at Christmas.

(Emma, de Jane Austen)

Alternatively, you may have a business reason to go, most likely a speaking or writing engagement.

(AstrologyZone.com, de Susan Miller)

And now her father and mother had taken a firm stand and commanded that the engagement be broken.

(Martin Eden, de Jack London)

Jane looked well, and Elizabeth had little opportunity of studying her spirits, amidst the various engagements which the kindness of her aunt had reserved for them.

(Pride and Prejudice, de Jane Austen)

Continual engagements at home and abroad, however, supplied all the deficiencies of nature and education; supported the good spirits of Sir John, and gave exercise to the good breeding of his wife.

(Sense and Sensibility, de Jane Austen)

He had been engaged to Miss Edith Woodley, of Carstairs, but the engagement had been broken off by mutual consent some months before, and there was no sign that it had left any very profound feeling behind it.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

But I cannot pretend to understand how this matter stands, and you must allow me to say that I have not heard you advance anything yet which seems to me to justify you in abandoning your engagements at a moment’s notice.

(Rodney Stone, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

When Amy and Laurie wrote of their engagement, Mrs. March feared that Jo would find it difficult to rejoice over it, but her fears were soon set at rest, for though Jo looked grave at first, she took it very quietly, and was full of hopes and plans for 'the children' before she read the letter twice.

(Little Women, de Louisa May Alcott)

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