engagement

engagement
I (appointment) noun adventure, application, assignation, assurance, commitment, competition, contract, covenant, duty, encounter, enlistment, enterprise, interaction, interaffiliation, interplay, interview, involvement, meeting, obligation, pursuit, responsibility, undertaking II (confrontation) noun altercation, argument, battle, brawl, clash, collision, combat, conflict, confrontation, contention, disagreement, discord, dispute, embroilment, fight, fracas, fray, skirmish, squabble, struggle, wrangle III index agreement (contract), appointment (meeting), assurance, burden, charge (responsibility), commitment (responsibility), competition, conflict, confrontation (act of setting face to face), confrontation (altercation), contest (competition), contract, covenant, duty (obligation), embroilment, employment, enterprise (undertaking), fight (battle), meeting (encounter), mortgage, profession (vocation), project, promise, pursuit (occupation), rendezvous, responsibility (accountability), specialty (contract), stipulation, strife, struggle, testament, trade (occupation), undertaking (business), undertaking (enterprise), undertaking (pledge), work (employment)

Burton's Legal Thesaurus. . 2006


engagement
in English law, an agreement, albeit unenforceable, to marry at some future date. The agreement is usually marked by the man giving the woman an engagement ring. This gift is presumed to be absolute, so that if the marriage does not take place the woman may keep the ring; this presumption may be rebutted, however, by proof that the ring was given on condition that the marriage took place.
In Scots family law, and prior to 1984, a contract, legally binding, each party promising to marry the other. Breach attracted damages, and the contract was protected by the delict of wrongful interference with contract. By virtue of the Law Reform (Husband and Wife) (Scotland) Act 1984 it cannot create legal obligations.

Collins dictionary of law. . 2001.


engagement
A binding, pledging, or coming together. A mutual pact, contract, or agreement.

Dictionary from West's Encyclopedia of American Law. 2005.


engagement
A binding, pledging, or coming together. A mutual pact, contract, or agreement.

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  • Engagement — Engagement …   Deutsch Wörterbuch

  • ENGAGEMENT — L’engagement peut être entendu au sens de «conduite» ou au sens d’«acte de décision», selon qu’il désigne un mode d’existence dans et par lequel l’individu est impliqué activement dans le cours du monde, s’éprouve responsable de ce qui arrive,… …   Encyclopédie Universelle

  • Engagement — Saltar a navegación, búsqueda El engagement, es un concepto que generalmente se considera como la dirección de un esfuerzo voluntario, esto es, cuando los trabajadores tienen oportunidades, actúan de una forma que va más allá de los intereses de… …   Wikipedia Español

  • engagement — ENGAGEMENT. s. masc. L action d engager, ou l effet de cette action. Tenir une terre par engagement. Ce n est qu un engagement, il n en a pas lapropriété. [b]f♛/b] On appelle Engagement, Une Seigneurie engagée, un Domaine engagé. Cette Terre est… …   Dictionnaire de l'Académie Française 1798

  • engagement — en‧gage‧ment [ɪnˈgeɪdʒmənt] noun formal 1. [countable, uncountable] HUMAN RESOURCES when you arrange to employ someone or to pay someone to do something for you: • the engagement of supply teachers by schools ˌterms of enˈgagement [plural] …   Financial and business terms

  • Engagement — [ãgaʒəˈmãː] (frz. engagement ‚Verpflichtung, Einsatz‘) ist: Soziales Engagement, freiwilliges und ehrenamtliches soziales Handeln intensiver persönlicher Einsatz für eine Sache, ähnlich auch Anstrengung die vertragliche Verpflichtung eines… …   Deutsch Wikipedia

  • engagement — Engagement. subst. masc. v. L action d engager. Tenir une terre par engagement. ce n est qu un engagement, il n en a pas la proprieté. Il signifie fig. Une promesse, un attachement, une obligation qui est cause que l on n est plus en liberté de… …   Dictionnaire de l'Académie française

  • Engagement — En*gage ment, n. [Cf. F. engagement.] 1. The act of engaging, pledging, enlisting, occupying, or entering into contest. [1913 Webster] 2. The state of being engaged, pledged or occupied; specif., a pledge to take some one as husband or wife.… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • engagement — 1 Engagement, appointment, rendezvous, tryst, assignation, date mean a promise or an agreement to be in an agreed place at a specified time, usually for a particular purpose. Engagement is the general term usable in place of any of the others {he …   New Dictionary of Synonyms

  • Engagement — Sn Einsatz, Anstellung erw. fremd. Erkennbar fremd (17. Jh.) Entlehnung. Entlehnt aus frz. engagement m., einer Ableitung von frz. engager verpflichten , eigentlich in Sold nehmen , zu frz. gage m. Pfand, Lohn und en . In der Bedeutung politische …   Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen sprache

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