What's the difference between engagement and reengagement?
Engagement
Definition:
(n.) The act of engaging, pledging, enlisting, occupying, or entering into contest.
(n.) The state of being engaged, pledged or occupied; specif., a pledge to take some one as husband or wife.
(n.) That which engages; engrossing occupation; employment of the attention; obligation by pledge, promise, or contract; an enterprise embarked in; as, his engagements prevented his acceptance of any office.
(n.) An action; a fight; a battle.
(n.) The state of being in gear; as, one part of a clutch is brought into engagement with the other part.
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.
Reengagement
Definition:
(n.) A renewed or repeated engagement.
Example Sentences:
(1) The reluctance stems from the obvious perils of reengaging in the Iraq war, but his congressional critics seized on it.
(2) Instead, grangers are active, reengaging with the activism of the 1960s and 70s, out on picket lines, cooking up food for strikers, getting arrested at protests, rallying in the streets, peopling anti-fracking and anti-logging and anti-McDonalds and anti-war actions – organising, planning, plotting.
(3) How can charities attract new donors, reengage with current donors and get more regular donations?
(4) Behavioral aspects of wariness appear to serve a "cutoff" (coping) function for the infant, preventing all-or-none responses (crying) and facilitating subsequent reengagement of the stranger.
(5) The author predicts that declining confidence in Social Security, questioning of the public's responsibility for the elderly, organization proliferation, anticipated labor shortages, and a trend to reengage in, rather than retire from, mainstream society will all lead to an emphasis on the elderly's productive potential and a "common human need" policy in the aging field.
(6) Slices of reengaged liver continued to transcribe tissue-specific mRNA sequences at significantly higher rates after 24 h in culture than did individual cells isolated by EDTA perfusion followed by culturing as a monolayer.
(7) As much as the dire persecution of Iraqi religious minorities has prompted Obama administration discussions of food, water and medicinal air drops, the threat to the pro-US Kurds has contributed to the reengaged debate over air strikes.
(8) Iran’s reengagement with international markets has been supported by new legislation designed to attract more foreign investment into the country, removing previous restrictions on the percentage of foreign shareholding in Iran and even opening up the possibility of registering an Iranian company with 100% foreign capital,” he says.
(9) A general theme of selective disengagement and reengagement for couples in families at risk for alcoholism recurrence is discussed.
(10) Furthermore, we found that cells in the liver could be disengaged and immediately reengaged in a tissue-like structure by perfusing the liver with EDTA followed by serum-containing culture medium.