different between engaged vs engagee

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?n??e?d?d/, /?n??e?d?d/

Verb

engaged

1. simple past tense and past participle of engage

Adjective

engaged (not comparable)

1. Agreed to be married.
2. Busy or employed.
3. Greatly interested.
4. (Britain) (of a telephone) Already involved in a telephone call when a third party calls

   I tried calling, but she (or her phone) was engaged.

5. (architecture, of a column) attached to a wall or sunk into it halfway
6. (of gears or cogs) in contact and in operation
7. (military) being attacked or attacking
8. (medicine, of a foetus) Having the widest part of its presenting part, usually the head, enter the pelvic brim or inlet.
9. Synonym of engagé (“passionately committed to a cause”)
   • 2002, Maria Lauret, Liberating Literature (page 81)

     Black and white women writers assumed their mantle as engaged writers, as cultural and political critics.

Synonyms

• (of a telephone): (US) busy

Related terms

• engage
• engagement

Translations

See also

• (agreed to be married): fiancée, fiancé

English

Etymology

French engagée

Noun

engagee (plural engagees)

1. (historical) A worker in the fur trade in North America; a voyageur.

Related terms

• engagé