Difference between Engage and Retain

ENGAGE vs RETAIN: VERB

Engage or hire for work
Give to in marriage
Engage or engross wholly
Engage for service under a term of contract
Carry out or participate in an activity; be involved in
Keep engaged
Ask to represent; of legal counsel
As of wars, battles, or campaigns
As of aid, help, services, or support
To engross or hold the attention of (someone); to keep busy or occupied.
To bind through legal or moral obligation (to do something, especially to marry) (usually in passive).
To guarantee or promise (to do something).
To enter into (an activity), to participate (construed with in).
To mesh or interlock (of machinery, especially a clutch).
To arrange to employ or use (a worker, a space, etc).
To enter into battle.
To enter into conflict with (an enemy).
To attract, to please; (archaic) to fascinate or win over (someone).
To draw into conversation.
Get caught
To pledge, pawn (one's property); to put (something) at risk or on the line; to mortgage (houses, land).

Hold back within
To hold secure.
To employ by paying a retainer.
To keep in one's pay or service.
To keep in possession or use.
Keep in one's mind
Hold within
Allow to remain in a place or position
Secure and keep for possible future use or application

ENGAGE vs RETAIN: INTRANSITIVE VERB

To enter or bring into conflict with.
To require the use of; occupy.
To win over or attract.
To interlock or cause to interlock; mesh.
To give or take as security.
To involve oneself or become occupied; participate.
To be in gear, as two cogwheels working together.
To enter into conflict; to join battle.
To embark in a business; to take a part; to employ or involve one's self; to devote attention and effort; to enlist.
To promise or pledge one's self; to enter into an obligation; to become bound; to warrant.
To become meshed or interlocked.
To assume an obligation; agree.
To draw into; involve.
To attract and hold the attention of; engross.
To pledge or promise, especially to marry.
To arrange for the use of; reserve: : book.
To obtain or contract for the services of; employ.
To enter into conflict or battle.

To keep; to continue; to remain.
To belong; to pertain.

ENGAGE vs RETAIN: TRANSITIVE VERB

To come into gear with.
To enter into contest with; to encounter; to bring to conflict.
To employ the attention and efforts of; to occupy; to engross; to draw on.
To gain over; to win and attach; to attract and hold; to draw.
To gain for service; to bring in as associate or aid; to enlist
To put under pledge; to pledge; to place under obligations to do or forbear doing something, as by a pledge, oath, or promise; to bind by contract or promise.

A wall built to keep any movable backing, or a bank of sand or earth, in its place; -- called also retain wall.
To restrain; to prevent.
To keep in pay; to employ by a preliminary fee paid; to hire; to engage.
To continue to hold; to keep in possession; not to lose, part with, or dismiss; to restrain from departure, escape, or the like.
To hire someone for (his or her services).
To hire (an attorney, for example) by the payment of a fee.
To keep in one's service or pay.
To require (a student) to repeat a class or grade because of insufficient educational progress to advance.
To keep in mind; remember.
To keep possession of; continue to have: : keep.
To continue to have as a feature or aspect.
To keep in a particular place or condition.

ENGAGE vs RETAIN: OTHER WORD TYPES

Ask to represent
Be involved in
Hire for work or assistance
Carry on (wars, battles, or campaigns)
Consume all of one's attention or time
In machinery, to mesh and interact.
In fencing, to cross weapons with an adversary, pressing against his with sufficient force to prevent any manœuver from taking one unawares. Farrow, Mil. Encyc.
To have an encounter; begin to fight; enter into conflict.
To occupy one's self; be busied; take part: as, to engage in conversation; he is zealously engaged in the cause.
To pledge one's word; promise; assume an obligation; become bound; undertake: as, a friend has engaged to supply the necessary funds.
Of legal counsel
In construction, to fasten or let into a wall for support, as to secure a column to a wall. See engaged column, under column.
To pledge; bind as by pledge, promise, contract, or oath; put under an obligation to do or forbear doing something; specifically, to make liable, as for a debt to a creditor; bind as surety or in betrothal: with a reflexive pronoun or (rarely) a noun or personal pronoun as object: as, nations engage themselves to each other by treaty.
To pawn; stake; pledge.
To secure for aid, employment, use, or the like; put under requisition by agreement or bargain; obtain a promise of: as, to engage one's friends in support of a cause; to engage workmen; to engage a carriage, or a supply of provisions.
To gain; win and attach; draw; attract and fix: as, to engage the attention.
To occupy; employ the attention or efforts of: as, to engage one in conversation; to be engaged in war; to engage one's self in party disputes.
To enter into contest with; bring into conflict; encounter in battle: as, the army engaged the enemy at ten o'clock.
To interlock and become entangled; entangle; involve.
In mech., to mesh with and interact upon; enter and act or be acted upon; interlock with, as the teeth of geared wheels with each other, or the rack and pinion in a rack-and-pinion movement.

To hold back; restrain; hinder from action, departure, or escape; keep back; detain.
To hold or keep in possession; reserve as one's own.
To continue in the use or practice of; preserve; keep up; keep from dying out: as, to retain a custom; to retain an appearance of youth.
To keep in mind; preserve a knowledge or idea of; remember.
To pertain; belong; be a dependent or retainer.
To keep on: continue.
=Syn. 2–4. Reserve, Preserve, etc. See keep.
To keep in pay; hire; take into service; especially, to engage by the payment of a preliminary fee: as, to retain counsel.
To entertain.

ENGAGE vs RETAIN: RELATED WORDS

Plight, Mesh, Lock, Wage, Absorb, Hire, Retain, Prosecute, Take, Occupy, Operate, Engross, Employ, Pursue, Enlist

Sustain, Obtain, Attract, Secure, Lose, Preserve, Maintain, Keep on, Hold back, Keep back, Reserve, Engage, Hold, Continue, Keep

ENGAGE vs RETAIN: DESCRIBE WORDS

Rent, Plight, Mesh, Lock, Wage, Hire, Retain, Prosecute, Take, Occupy, Operate, Engross, Employ, Pursue, Enlist

Recruit, Maintaining, Uphold, Remain, Obtain, Attract, Secure, Lose, Preserve, Keep on, Keep back, Reserve, Hold, Continue, Keep

ENGAGE vs RETAIN: SENTENCE EXAMPLES

Be careful when running up to engage though!
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Engage in fun filled entertainment from participating practices!
Students have greater choice and control regarding how they engage in learning, when they engage in learning, and how they demonstrate their proficiency.
In general, when undergraduates engage in research, they are more likely to pursue advanced degrees and they feel more competent to engage in research.
To effectively engage your church leadership, engage with them outside of church business so they feel known beyond the business of church.
Engage the public at large and community residents through timely press releases in an effort to inform and better engage at the local level.
You should quickly engage readers right away by providing key information they need to determine whether they want to engage with you further.
Not engage or induce another person to engage in conduct that is likely to mislead or deceive.
How you engage with those who engage with your posts matters more.

Then refold paper in manner to retain material.
Please retain this copyright notice in the script.
He would retain this affiliation throughout his life.
Postal Code please retain all packaging and contents!
The original form is on paper, and so the only way to retain the originalis to retain that same paper form.
The lessee shall retain one set and the lessor shall retain another set.
The ETS will retain electronic copies of the receipts inaccordance with statutory requirements; travelers are encouraged to retain scanned hard copies, as well.
Microsoft commits that it will not retain our data when it is no longer necessary to retain such data.
The draft rule would require creditors to retain information that the staff believes theyalready retain for business and other reasons.
Employers who choose to photocopy and retain these documents should not retain the information in a personnel file.

ENGAGE vs RETAIN: QUESTIONS

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DIFFERENCE BETWEEN ENGAGE AND RETAIN

ENGAGE vs RETAIN: VERB

ENGAGE vs RETAIN: INTRANSITIVE VERB

ENGAGE vs RETAIN: TRANSITIVE VERB

ENGAGE vs RETAIN: OTHER WORD TYPES

ENGAGE vs RETAIN: RELATED WORDS

ENGAGE vs RETAIN: DESCRIBE WORDS

ENGAGE vs RETAIN: SENTENCE EXAMPLES

ENGAGE vs RETAIN: QUESTIONS