(a.) Pledged; promised; especially, having the affections pledged; promised in marriage; affianced; betrothed.
(a.) Greatly interested; of awakened zeal; earnest.
(a.) Involved; esp., involved in a hostile encounter; as, the engaged ships continued the fight.
Example Sentences:
(1) This finding is of major importance for persons treated with diltiazem who engage in sport.
(2) "But we develop a picture of someone from their previous engagements with us.
(3) In this study we were engaged on the pharmacokinetics of fosfestrol (Honvan) after oral administration.
(4) It is also a clear sign of our willingness and determination to step up engagement across the whole range of the EU-Turkey relationship to fully reflect the strategic importance of our relations.
(5) Nice (the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence) has also published new guidance on good patient experience that provides a strong framework on which to build good engagement practice.
(6) A man wearing a badge that says "property team" quietly parries some of her points, but chooses not to engage with others.
(7) I never had any doubt that the vast majority of people engaged in "business" are not the exploiters but the exploited.
(8) The need here is to promote the development of genuinely participative models – citizens panels and juries, patient and community leaders, participatory budgeting, and harnessing the power of digital engagement.
(9) Engagement in reminiscing may be stable during old age or may follow a developmental course.
(10) Using allozymes as the genetic probe, data are presented which show that wild Drosophila buzzatii females and males engaged in copulation mate at random.
(11) "This will obviously be a sensitive topic for the US administration, but partners in the transatlantic alliance must be clear on common rules of engagement in times of conflict if we are to retain any moral standing in the world," Verhofstadt said.
(12) Enright said: “We call on the home secretary and chair of IICSA [the independent inquiry into child sexual abuse] to engage actively and urgently to find a way forward that secures the confidence of survivors and provides the inquiry’s legal team with the resources and support they need to deliver justice and truth that survivors deserve.” Stein said his clients were “deeply disatisfied” with aspects of how the inquiry had been conducted but called for Emmerson to stay, adding: “I urge the home secretary to seek to find a way in which his valuable contribution can be maintained”.
(13) However, the mean serum EPO concentrations of male and female athletes engaged in a variety of sports were not different from those of sedentary control subjects of both sexes (26.5-35.3 U.ml-1).
(14) The findings may have a more general significance in relation to the site of engagement between processed antigen and MHC molecules in specialized antigen-presenting cells.
(15) These steps signify a willingness for engagement not seen before, but they have been overshadowed by the "nuclear crisis" triggered in October 2002 when Pyongyang admitted to having the "know-how", but not the technology, for a highly enriched uranium route to nuclear weapons.
(16) Through cues or precues, attention was directed to one location of a multistimulus visual display and, while attention was so engaged, the identity of a stimulus located at a different position in the display was changed.
(17) An Ofsted for universities Read more Too often a commitment to learning and teaching is presented in opposition to engagement with research and scholarship, but the two should be inextricably linked.
(18) And he failed to engage with these sensible proposals to limit bonuses to a maximum of a year's salary or double that if explicitly backed by shareholders - proposals which even his own MEPs have backed – until the very last minute.
(19) And an increasing number of critics say that no nuclear weapon would be a credible deterrent in any counter-terrorist operation British forces will be engaged in for the foreseeable future.
(20) The patient was engaged in the magistraliter preparations of medicaments in a pharmacy.
Tradespeople
Definition:
(n.) People engaged in trade; shopkeepers.
Example Sentences:
(1) Employment growth has been strongest in the high-skilled and low-skilled occupations, but the number of jobs requiring mid-skilled workers – skilled tradespeople, machine operatives and administrative and secretarial workers – is shrinking.
(2) Everyone who comes to this country, be they footballers or tradespeople or businessmen, has a fundamental right to work and live in a racism-free environment.
(3) It now has almost 50 direct employees, but finding additional tradespeople nearby has been a challenge, he admits.
(4) This means tradespeople – from plumbers to hairdressers – are likely to be relatively insulated from technological replacement.
(5) Main rate of corporation tax to be cut to 25% • Pledge to match Labour's spending plans for 2010-11 in health and overseas aid • Consumer Protection Agency to address high levels of personal debt • Abolition of Financial Services Authority with supervision of the City handed back to the Bank of England Education • Develop schools under the Swedish "free schools" and the US "charter school" models: small, autonomous institutions run and set up by parents, teachers, universities, faith groups and voluntary groups • Recreate technical schools, which vanished in the 1950s when their popularity dwindled, offering pupils aged 14 to 19 training and apprenticeships to become skilled tradespeople.
(6) Lesser villains were: mobile phone & TV companies (18%), house-builders and tradespeople (16%) and companies that provide public transport, which were named by a mere 13%, even though the survey was conducted within three weeks of the New Year rise in rail ticket prices.
(7) Now, as builders take on new work, the shortage of skilled tradespeople has allowed bricklayers and other subcontractors to ramp up their hourly rates .
(8) They run small firms, often as self-employed tradespeople.
(9) In Torbay, the most "at risk" are indebted families living in low-rise estates; mixed communities with many single people in the centre of the small town, and self-employed tradespeople.
(10) Last year the Catholic church also supported DUP efforts to introduce a conscience clause allowing tradespeople to discriminate against gay people.
(11) After its savage recession, the construction sector is still scrambling to get brick plants back to full capacity and to train more tradespeople.
(12) Compared to this time one year ago, more than twice the firms are reporting difficulties recruiting these tradespeople.
(13) Momote airport has also seen the coming and going of the legions of guards, tradespeople, medics, interpreters and officials required to wrangle, secure, house, assess and care for the asylum seekers.
(14) Robb has also pledged to toughen visa conditions to address concerns about the easing of mandatory skills assessments for licensed tradespeople such as carpenters and electricians.
(15) Ask most British builders about the country’s bricklaying excellence though, and they will probably tell you good tradespeople are as rare as their expertise.
(16) It is possible to have sympathy with plumbers and builders and electricians and decorators who struggle in a competitive environment now that times are leaner, while remembering how impossible and extortionate it had become to employ such tradespeople at the start of the millennium.
(17) Studies of printing industry tradespeople have reported an increased problem of dermatologic abnormalities, including contact dermatitis and dermatitis attributed to solvent exposure.
(18) Shops, small firms and tradespeople are among the heaviest users of bank branch counters, and the FSB said the rapid pace of closures was presenting some tough challenges.
(19) Neither is it just traditional self-employed tradespeople in Hammond’s sights.
(20) The industry has been held back by a shortage of skilled tradespeople, which has sent wages for bricklayers and plumbers rocketing.