Tra từ engage - Từ điển Oxford Advanced Learner 8th

en·gage [engage engages engaged engaging] BrE [ɪnˈɡeɪdʒ] NAmE [ɪnˈɡeɪdʒ] verb
1. transitive ~ sth (formal)to succeed in attracting and keeping sb's attention and interest
• It is a movie that engages both the mind and the eye.
• Their pleas failed to engage any sympathy.
2. transitive ~ sb (as sth) | ~ sth | ~ sb to do sth (formal)to employ sb to do a particular job
• He is currently engaged as a consultant.
• We will have to engage the services of a translator.
3. intransitive ~ (with sth/sb) to become involved with and try to understand sth/sb
•She has the ability to engage with young minds.
4. transitive, intransitive ~ (sb) (formal)to begin fighting with sb
•to engage the enemy
5. intransitive, transitive when a part of a machine engages, or when you engage it, it fits together with another part of the machine and the machine begins to work
•The cogwheels are not engaging.
•~ with sth One cogwheel engages with the next.
•~ sth Engage the clutch before selecting a gear.
Opp: ↑disengage
Derived: ↑engage in something ▪ ↑engage somebody in something
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Word Origin:
late Middle English (formerly also as ingage): from French engager, ultimately from the base of gage, ‘a pledge or deposit offered as a guarantee’. The word originally meant ‘to pawn or pledge something’, later ‘pledge oneself (to do something)’, hence ‘enter into a contract’ (mid 16th cent.), ‘involve oneself in an activity’, ‘enter into combat’ (mid 17th cent.), giving rise to the notion ‘involve someone or something else’.

Example Bank:
•Our contributors are actively engaging with tradition.
•The army was regularly engaged in combat.
•The party is attempting to engage young voters politically.
•They constructively engage critics in debates.
•We acknowledge the need to engage directly with these problems.
•people who actively engage in shaping the world they live in
•He ordered his men to engage (with) the enemy.
•It's a movie that engages both the mind and the eye.