verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
an engaging personality (= pleasant, so that people like you )
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He is strikingly handsome with a very engaging personality.
engage first/second etc gear (= put the car into gear )
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Nick struggled to engage first gear.
engage in an activity formal (= take part )
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Police suspect he may have engaged in criminal activities.
engage in combat with sb formal (= to fight someone )
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The President said he was aware of the danger to forces engaged in combat in the field.
engage in warfare
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The country did not want to engage in warfare.
engage...in conversation
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He was silent, no matter how hard Sofia tried to engage him in conversation .
hire/engage a consultant (= start to employ one )
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The company hired an outside consultant to review staffing levels.
hire/engage a lawyer
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He’s rich enough to hire a good lawyer.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
actively
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In order to participate meaningfully within the community members of this group must actively engage in the issues that confront them.
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The hum of voices is purpose ful; all are actively engaged .
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Barely 7,000 are actively engaged in film-making.
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Teachers actively engage in working for progressive education, defending the curriculum they developed and finding ways to expand it.
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You can not pretend that is not actively engaged in assaulting her integrity.
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Many companies are actively engaged in exports.
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Called to actively engage with the outside world.
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He was in the midst of his life and actively engaged in it.
in
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The news of busy, wanted school libraries can help all of us engaged in providing books and related services to schools.
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The news media are increasingly inclined to engage in , or report on, the verbal brawl.
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During the next few years children are likely to be engaging in more sustained projects as part of their learning of mathematics.
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For now, each branch of the military is studying how to engage in and protect itself against information warfare.
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In practice, however, a great many well-established businesses engage in highly successful entrepreneurship.
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Why is engaging in a two-way logical conversation so difficult for some children?
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Policy discontinuity frustrated industrialists and investors who wished to engage in forward planning: they could not anticipate stability in government programs.
otherwise
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The two leaders went to military headquarters for confirmation and were told that the staff were otherwise engaged .
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Government officials are not allowed to raise campaign funds or otherwise engage in partisan political activity.
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Fingers subconsciously searching out damage beneath the glossy surface, while he otherwise engages in conversation.
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This satisfies him and allows the other adventurers to run and escape automatically while the Champion is otherwise engaged .
■ NOUN
activity
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None the less, a person who gives reasons is engaging in a valuable activity .
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Were the people you called engaged in illegal activities ?
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They were expressly forbidden to engage in any other activities , of course.
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Similarly, parents instruct their children not to smoke or drink, yet the parents may engage in those activities themselves.
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Almost a quarter of the couples had engaged in no activity together with people from outside the household.
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The larger working-class and poor population generally finds it necessary to engage in multiple economic activities at the household level.
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State-owned television used a film of the episode to accuse conference participants of engaging in decadent activity .
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Without a self that others can accept, we could not engage in the activities that maintain us as a society.
attention
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He ploughed on, trying to outline his plans for the paper, and engage Sutton's attention .
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No Man has more wit, nor can any one engage the attention more than Mr Morris.
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It wasn't Friern that was engaging our attention ....
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These three examples suggest certain abilities in a new-born that can not fail to engage the attention of new parents.
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It was the man who engaged the attention of Blind Hugh, one of the beggars on early duty at Pearl Dock.
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Neither of these responses seriously engages our attention on performance.
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Aesthetic attention , therefore, consists of engaging the focus of attention in a heightened sustained discrimination.
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Blacks troubled him most because the sight of a white worker emptying shit cans engaged their attention .
battle
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At least 200 rebels, massed towards Gifunzo in Rutana Province, were engaged in battle .
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Our country is engaged in a pitched battle in a fiercely competitive commercial world.
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They explain that the patient is engaged in a legal battle with his brother over some land.
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Police and demonstrators regularly engage in running battles near Mr Suharto's home in central Jakarta.
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Earlier in the day, warriors will engage in mock battle .
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Across the table from Kelly, Annie and Bill were engaged in a silent battle of wills.
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My feelings and my thoughts were engaged in a battle royal inside me.
business
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Accountants, lawyers and other professionals who engage in such business would face enormous fines and up to 10 years' imprisonment.
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Her family were townsmen engaged in business .
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Guarantees of economic freedoms included explicit recognition of the right of citizens to engage in private business .
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QQDling v. Anglish for HANDln, to engage in business or commercial activity.
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In the 1960s women could neither engage in business nor launch political careers.
combat
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Once engaged in hand-to-hand combat in this way the Squig Hopper is pinioned to the ground and does not move away.
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A few people close to their chairs amuse themselves by watching the others engage in mortal combat to secure a seat.
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He'd jumped down, engaging in combat with a huge Mameluke.
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Higher animals also engage in playful combat and other forms of competitive behaviour.
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Helmeted, armed with long, spear-like boards, the surfers looked like gladiators going out to engage in mortal combat .
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If the target is engaged in hand-to-hand combat the spell will also affect all troops which are fighting against it.
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Infantry, he added, deliberately placed themselves in positions where they would be engaged in hand-to-hand combat .
conversation
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In the office, some girls have engaged the secretary in conversation .
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They do not engage in conversation , nor do their faces express a desire to.
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Lydia felt briefly sorry for her and attempted to engage her in conversation , but it was no good.
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Imagine that you could engage in a conversation with the political gladiator, contemporary or historical, who most fascinates you.
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Fingers subconsciously searching out damage beneath the glossy surface, while he otherwise engages in conversation .
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Through the all-night watches he engaged officers in conversation , asked them questions about world affairs.
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He'd got engaged in a conversation with Morag and was taking his time, but who could blame him?
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His favorite tactic was to engage in conversation as a way of avoiding work.
debate
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Instead, they say industry should engage in the debate to promote the life-saving benefits from testing treatments on animals.
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Very few environmentalists would choose to engage in a debate about the extent to which they had either succeeded or sold out.
dialogue
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On the analysis offered here, rationality is partly a matter of engaging in a dialogue with others in an appropriate way.
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Occasionally the child makes a comment, and the two may engage in brief dialogue .
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You refused to engage in a dialogue with it.
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Town and country here are engaged in the age-old dialogue between advanced civilizations and primitive cultures.
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They 100 engage more in a dialogue that involves planning and equitable exchanges or balances of advantage.
discussion
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This should take place at a time when the individual is able to engage in detailed discussion .
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At some time, most of us have engaged in a discussion about the possibility of a utopian society.
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None the less those who engaged in frequent political discussions became particularly aware of the Conservative Party's stress on defence.
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And the president would typically engage them in a discussion of whatever issues they were talking about.
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Work-inhibited students enjoy learning and frequently engage in classroom discussions . 8.
form
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Duck himself as a thresher in Wiltshire engaged in an ordinary form of agricultural labour.
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She would accept students at the margins, but she acknowledged that she was engaging in a form of triage.
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Over 90 percent of 3-4 year-olds are engaged in some form of group activity.
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Federal law prohibits IRS-approved public charities from engaging in any form of partisan conduct.
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Do they conjure up the impression that children are engaged in some form of pre-Victorian drudgery at school?
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We could always engage in the Rawlsian form of argument and apply it to the new information once it becomes available.
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Partners must not engage in any form of enterprise which is in competition with the partnership.
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Both Roeg and Russell could engage with popular cinematic forms in a way that the directors around Anderson could not.
interest
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How royal conflicts could engage these various interests is best seen through a detailed investigation of one particular crisis.
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But it should be lively enough to engage the interest and the future assistance of better analysts.
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It failed to engage my interest .
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They keep you talking by asking questions in order to attempt to engage your interest in whatever they are selling.
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An artefact from the past can be used to engage interest and awaken curiosity.
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There was at first little to engage his political interest , but this changed after Eden's resignation in February 1938.
kind
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Nor do fans see themselves as engaging in a kind of working-class resistance to the commercialization of football in any straight forward sense.
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Yet some union leadership engaged in a kind of reality denial.
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The writer is engaged in a kind of vicarious interaction with a presumed reader and anticipates and provides for likely reactions.
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Microsoft recommends it only when the power supply is unreliable or when you are engaged in certain kinds of development work.
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Both were engaged in the same kind of activity, in exploring accounts of the world through participation in a conversation.
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Besides governments, it is likely that only the largest companies will engage in any kind of record retention and archive management.
opportunity
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How can the time and opportunities for children to engage in these tasks be maximized?
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Yet we systematically deny these individuals the opportunity to engage in meaningful ways with the adult world.
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But the occasional visitor who is wanting more will find that he has a genuine opportunity to engage in worthwhile learning.
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It offers an opportunity to engage in group delinquency and, occasionally, in group fights.
practices
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They frequented the tavern and engaged in unspecified lewd practices .
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Team members might engage in discriminatory practices or hire only friends or relatives.
process
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It is concerned with understanding the world and has a set of distinctive methodological devices for engaging in that process .
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Since long before Stonewall, gay men have engaged in a process of self-invention.
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We accepted the Secretary of State's invitation to engage in the consultation process which he initiated.
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When an organization as a whole is engaged in the process of denial, its individual members often follow suit.
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Moral entrepreneurs engage in the process of establishing moral rules by attempting to define certain actions or forms of behaviour as deviant.
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They are engaged in a process of discovery that is its own reward.
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From 1975 to 1979, Mrs Thatcher was engaged in a process not dissimilar from that which Mr Kinnock now presides over.
research
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We would have to say, for example, that staff responsible for research students have a definite obligation to engage in research.
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At the time of his selection, Foss was working in private industry, engaged in high-altitude research .
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Undoubtedly we have further to go in this, and the Institute is engaged in longer-term research into competence-based assessment.
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Lecturer Lecturers engage in teaching and research .
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All three tutors were engaged in research into various aspects of Language in Education.
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They come close to enjoining all scientists to refuse to engage in military research but then back off at the last moment.
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This does not imply that all teachers should engage in research .
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My father was engaged in research in tropical diseases, and he used to take me around his laboratory in Mill Hill.
struggle
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Neo-Classicism was engaged in a struggle for its survival.
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It did not engage in the struggle for mass cultural-political hegemony.
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When cells fuse, the rival bacteria in each engage in a struggle to the death.
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Gary was used to trying to make the rules and then engaging in endless power struggles over them with his son.
student
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A Cherokee with an instructor and student on board was engaged in circuits and landings on Runway 22.
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Even outstanding teachers have difficulty getting these students to engage in the work of school.
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All students should engage in intellectually challenging work and should graduate on the basis of what they know and can do.
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We want the student engaged , active, working together.
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One teacher recruited three parent helpers to help one fourth-grade student who could not engage in lengthy writing projects.
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Indeed, the notion that all students should engage in serious academic work and learn it deeply is a relatively recent phenomenon.
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Yet despite a bumpy first year, most students were engaged in productive work.
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Glasser stresses that reluctant students engage in the work of school simply because they share a positive relation-ship with their teacher.
study
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It was not uncommon for critics at this time to be engaged in character study and reconstructions of plot and chronology.
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We intend to persuade the Church to engage in policy studies with the aim of developing people-oriented policies for the communication task.
task
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How can the time and opportunities for children to engage in these tasks be maximized?
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The children performed these tasks either silently or while engaging in a task designed to suppress their vocalisation of the word names.
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Those that remained were engaged on tasks of economic importance.
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Having nothing much to do while children are engaged in undemanding tasks that offer little opportunity for the support teacher's intervention.
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All carers whatever their titles or financial status are likely to be engaged in tasks of tending with vulnerable elderly people.
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There must therefore be another process at work affecting performance, a process which is engaged for certain tasks but not for others.
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The part-braided ends of his long hair escaped from the busy fingers which were engaged in their intricate task .
trade
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Five are engaged in trade promotion.
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If you are engaged in foreign trade , would loans or an overdraft in foreign currency help you?
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The booty did not teach the Pisans how to engage in trade , any more than it taught them how to govern.
war
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Cities and states oblige them by engaging in bidding wars .
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Great Groups are engaged in holy wars .
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Catholic morality approves of the view that to repel an aggressor is to engage in a just war .
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Different ethnic groups within the country have been engaged in a civil war for more than forty-five years.
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He was engaging in a war of nerves with her, Isabel realised at last, but he didn't remember.
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The Administration would have neither the men nor the money to engage actively in war .
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McKinsey denied it was engaging in a turf war over branding.
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In this species the two parents' chloroplasts engage in a war of attrition that destroys 95 percent of them.
work
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MacLauchlan never married, lodging in the Lambeth and Clapham areas of London when not engaged on archaeological work .
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Even outstanding teachers have difficulty getting these students to engage in the work of school.
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They are a group of campesinos who are all engaged in other work .
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All students should engage in intellectually challenging work and should graduate on the basis of what they know and can do.
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Of the University's total population of about 16,000 students, over 3,500 are engaged in postgraduate work .
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Whether they choose to engage in serious intellectual work or not is up to them.
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In St Luke's Hospital he would not have been allowed to engage in demanding intellectual work .
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Bechtel will manage much of the project but not engage in any construction work .
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
be otherwise engaged
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Duffy, who was otherwise engaged , has been replaced by another actor.
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The people in the town who may need a spot of positive thinking more than anybody else will be otherwise engaged .
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The two leaders went to military headquarters for confirmation and were told that the staff were otherwise engaged .
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This satisfies him and allows the other adventurers to run and escape automatically while the Champion is otherwise engaged .
otherwise engaged
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Oonagh was beautiful, but I was ... otherwise engaged.
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The people in the town who may need a spot of positive thinking more than anybody else will be otherwise engaged.
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The two leaders went to military headquarters for confirmation and were told that the staff were otherwise engaged.
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They were eating, sleeping, defecating, or otherwise engaged in some momentous enterprise.
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This satisfies him and allows the other adventurers to run and escape automatically while the Champion is otherwise engaged.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Paul was engaged as a junior clerk at a very low wage.
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She engaged the clutch and put the car into first gear.
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She is a storyteller who can engage the children's imagination.
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The two armies engaged at dawn.
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The vet was increasingly busy and had to engage two new assistants.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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All students should engage in intellectually challenging work and should graduate on the basis of what they know and can do.
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And if you have a deadlock system, don't forget to engage it.
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I was engaged in enquiry into the matter when I learnt of the attack upon her sister.
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No Man has more wit, nor can any one engage the attention more than Mr Morris.
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She didn't appear to beat all like the kind of lady who would be engaging a maid.
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Trained to futility by now, we will be ready to engage in further enterprises of a futile nature.