engager — meaning in English

English meaning

• commit verb To carry out a crime, mistake, or wrongdoing.
• engage verb To hold someone's attention or interest.
• hire verb To employ someone for pay, or to give someone a job.
• pawn verb To leave an item with a pawnbroker as security in exchange for money.

Senses

engager is used for these senses in English:

• commit (transitive) To give in trust; to put into charge or keeping; to entrust; to consign; used with to or formerly unto.
• commit (ambitransitive) To pledge or bind; to compromise, expose, or endanger by some decisive act or preliminary step. (Traditionally used only reflexively but now also without oneself etc.)
• engage (transitive) To engross or hold the attention of; to keep busy or occupied.
• hire (transitive) To employ; to obtain the services of (a person) in exchange for remuneration; to give someone a job.
• pawn (transitive) To give as security on a loan of money; especially, to deposit (something) at a pawn shop.
• pull out (idiomatic, intransitive) To maneuver a vehicle from the side of a road onto the lane.

commit — full definition

1. verb To carry out a crime, mistake, or wrongdoing.
2. verb To pledge or bind oneself to a course of action.
3. verb To save a set of changes permanently, especially in software or version control.

engage — full definition

1. verb To hold someone's attention or interest.
2. verb To enter into conflict or battle with an opponent.
3. verb To arrange to employ or hire someone, or to book a service.
4. verb To interlock or mesh, as with gears or machine parts.

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