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engages in

engages in is the third-person singular simple present indicative 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 engages in

What is engages in the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Engages in is the third-person singular simple present indicative of engage in.

Words near engages in in the dictionary

  1. engagement rings
  2. engagements
  3. engager
  4. engagers
  5. engages
  6. engages in
  7. engagest
  8. engageth
  9. engaging
  10. engaging in
  11. engagingly

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Adapted from Wiktionary: engages 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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