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engaged in

engaged in is the simple past and past participle of engage in.

Meaning of engage in

Verb

engage in (third-person singular simple present engages in, present participle engaging in, simple past and past participle engaged in)

  1. (transitive) To start performing (an activity).
    • We are engaged in a great work, a treatise on our river fortifications, perhaps? But since when did army officers afford the luxury of amanuenses in this simple republic?1910, Emerson Hough, chapter I, in The Purchase Price: Or The Cause of Compromise, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC
    Synonyms:
    start, begin

Questions about engaged in

What is engaged in the simple past and past participle of?
Engaged in is the simple past and past participle of engage in.

Words near engaged in in the dictionary

  1. engageante
  2. engageantes
  3. engaged
  4. engaged column
  5. engaged columns
  6. engaged in
  7. engaged time
  8. engaged times
  9. engaged tone
  10. engaged tones
  11. engagedly

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Adapted from Wiktionary: engaged in (page history and authors); engage in (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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