engage in

English

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).
    Synonyms: start, begin
    • 1910, Emerson Hough, chapter I, in The Purchase Price: Or The Cause of Compromise, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
      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?

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