Engage vs Bargain - What's the difference?
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To interact socially.
#To engross or hold the attention of; to keep busy or occupied.
#*(Alexander Pope) (1688-1744)
#*:Thus shall mankind his guardian care engage .
#To draw into conversation.
#*(Nathaniel Hawthorne) (1804-1864)
#*:the difficult task of engaging him in conversation
#To attract, to please; (archaic) to fascinate or win over (someone).
#*(Joseph Addison) (1672-1719)
#*:Good nature engages everybody to him.
(lb) To interact antagonistically.
#(lb) To enter into conflict with (an enemy).
#*(Fitz Hugh Ludlow) (1836-1870)
#*:a favourable opportunity of engaging the enemy
#(lb) To enter into battle.
(lb) To interact contractually.
#(lb) To arrange to employ or use (a worker, a space, etc.).
#*{{quote-book, year=1905, author=
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, chapter=2 #(lb) To guarantee or promise (to do something).
#(lb) To bind through legal or moral obligation (to do something, especially to marry) (usually in passive).
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# To pledge, pawn (one's property); to put (something) at risk or on the line; to mortgage (houses, land).
#* 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), (The Faerie Queene) , II.vii:
(lb) To interact mechanically.
#To mesh or interlock (of machinery, especially a clutch).
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# To come into gear with.
(label) To enter into (an activity), to participate (construed with in).
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*:“[…] We are engaged in a great work, a treatise on our river fortifications, perhaps? But since when did army officers afford the luxury of amanuenses in this simple republic?”
An agreement between parties concerning the sale of property; or a contract by which one party binds himself to transfer the right to some property for a consideration, and the other party binds himself to receive the property and pay the consideration.
*(rfdate) (w, Wharton's Law Lexicon)
*:A contract is a bargain that is legally binding.
An agreement or stipulation; mutual pledge.
*(rfdate), (William Shakespeare)
*:And whon your honors mean to solemnize The bargain of your faith.
An item (usually brand new) purchased for significantly less than the usual, or recommended, price; also (when not qualified), a gainful transaction; an advantageous purchase.
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*:Thus the red damask curtains which now shut out the fog-laden, drizzling atmosphere of the Marylebone Road, had cost a mere song, and yet they might have been warranted to last another thirty years. A great bargain also had been the excellent Axminster carpet which covered the floor;.
The thing stipulated or purchased.
*(rfdate) (William Shakespeare)
*:She was too fond of her most filthy bargain .
(Webster 1913)
To make a bargain; to make a contract for the exchange of property or services; to negotiate; -- followed by with and for; as, to bargain with a farmer for a cow.
To transfer for a consideration; to barter; to trade; as, to bargain one horse for another.
Engage is a related term of bargain.
As verbs the difference between engage and bargain
is that engage is while bargain is to make a bargain; to make a contract for the exchange of property or services; to negotiate; -- followed by with and for; as, to bargain with a farmer for a cow.As a noun bargain is
an agreement between parties concerning the sale of property; or a contract by which one party binds himself to transfer the right to some property for a consideration, and the other party binds himself to receive the property and pay the consideration.engage
English
(wikipedia engage)Alternative forms
* ingage (obsolete)Verb
(engag)citation, passage=For this scene, a large number of supers are engaged , and in order to further swell the crowd, practically all the available stage hands have to ‘walk on’ dressed in various coloured dominoes, and all wearing masks.}}
- Thou that doest liue in later times, must wage / Thy workes for wealth, and life for gold engage .
- The teeth of one cogwheel engage those of another.
Antonyms
* (to cause to mesh or interlock) disengageDerived terms
* engagement * disengage * disengagement ----bargain
English
Noun
(en noun)Synonyms
* contract, engagement, purchase, stipulation * (an advantageous purchase) stealAntonyms
* rip-offDerived terms
* bargain basement * Faustian bargain * into the bargain * prebargainingVerb
- So worthless peasants bargain for their wives. -- Shakespeare.
- united we bargain, divided we beg