| absorbed |
deeply engaged or involved. |
| action-adventure |
a genre of films, video games, and the like having an exciting undertaking involving risk and danger as its main story line, and involving one or more heroes engaged in a series of physical challenges. [1/2 definitions] |
| anthropologist |
a person engaged in the study of anthropology. |
| apprenticeship |
the process of working for another to learn that person's skill or trade, or the act of becoming engaged in this way. |
| at1 |
engaged in the action of. [1/5 definitions] |
| at loggerheads |
engaged in an argument or dispute. |
| banker2 |
on the Newfoundland banks, a ship or person engaged in fishing for cod. |
| battle cry |
a slogan or motto used by those engaged in a contest, campaign, or the like. [1/2 definitions] |
| belligerent |
a person, state, or nation engaged in war. [1/4 definitions] |
| betrothed |
a person to whom one is engaged to be married. [2 definitions] |
| business |
the buying and selling activities engaged in by a commercial enterprise or enterprises, or the transactions engaged in by customers in connection with an enterprise. [1/9 definitions] |
| busy |
actively occupied; engaged. [1/5 definitions] |
| cabal |
a small group of people engaged in a secret plot, usu. of a political nature. [1/3 definitions] |
| cog3 |
a projection on the end of a piece of wood that, when engaged with an indentation on another piece of wood, creates a joint. [1/2 definitions] |
| colonialism |
the practice that a country is engaged in when it takes over another country and sets up its own government and colony there. A "colony" is what the country is called that is taken over by the more powerful country. Colonialism serves the purpose of creating wealth and power for the ruling country. |
| conglomerate |
a company made up of several smaller companies engaged in diverse or unrelated areas of industry. [1/5 definitions] |
| conspiracy |
a group engaged in such an agreement or plan. [1/4 definitions] |
| counsel |
(used with a sing. or pl. verb) an attorney, attorneys, or a law firm engaged to give legal advice or representation in court. [1/6 definitions] |
| developer |
someone engaged in buying land and developing it for housing, businesses, recreation, or the like. [1/2 definitions] |
| engagement |
the act of engaging or state of being engaged. [1/3 definitions] |
| engrossed |
involved or mentally engaged in something to the point of being unable to focus on anything else. |