involvein‧volve /ɪnˈvɒlv $ ɪnˈvɑːlv/ ●●● S2 W1 AWL verb [transitive] 
What will the job involve? I didn’t realize putting on a play involved so much work.involve doing something Running your own business usually involves working long hours.2to include or affect someone or something: These changes will involve everyone on the staff. There have been four accidents involving Forest Service planes.3to ask or allow someone to take part in somethinginvolve somebody in (doing) something Try to involve as many children as possible in the game. We want to involve the workforce at all stages of the decision-making process.4involve yourself to take part actively in a particular activityinvolve in Reilly involves himself in every aspect of his company’s business.
WORD ORIGINinvolve
Origin:
1300-1400 Latin involvere ‘to wrap’, from volvere ‘to roll’VERB TABLE
involve
| Simple Form | ||
| Present | I, you, we, they | involve |
| he, she, it | involves | |
| Past | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | involved |
| Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have involved |
| he, she, it | has involved | |
| Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had involved |
| Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will involve |
| Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have involved |
| Continuous Form | ||
| Present | I | am involving |
| he, she, it | is involving | |
| you, we, they | are involving | |
| Past | I, he, she, it | was involving |
| you, we, they | were involving | |
| Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have been involving |
| he, she, it | has been involving | |
| Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had been involving |
| Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will be involving |
| Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have been involving |
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- A good manager will try to involve everyone in the decision-making process.
- A study involving long-distance runners is being done at the Medical Center.
- Community service can involve anything from gardening to helping in old people's homes.
- I always try to involve the whole class.
- The plan involves converting the old canteen into a sports hall.
- The school has gained improved exam results by involving parents more in their children's education.
- And if one thing happened, the whole school would be involved.
- As a result of these liaisons the rest of my job involves problem solving and development of initiatives.
- How the hell does she come to be involved?
- It involves no judgments and no inferences.
- Other reactions might involve your feelings: for example, embarrassment or indifference.
- The Southern Weekend identified at least two village officials said to be actively involved in the trade.
- They will also be concerned with more immediate issues involving the well-being of the party or other organization providing their political base.
- This process did not just involve individuals but seemed to involve the entire fast-lane culture as a whole.
Longman Language Activatorwhen a job, plan etc includes something that you must do
if a job, plan, piece of work etc entails something, you have to do it because this is part of the job, plan etc: · I didn't want to take on a job that would entail a lot of travelling.entail doing something: · The job entailed being on call twenty-four hours a day.
if something such as a job, plan, decision etc involves something, you have to do it because it is part of the job, plan etc: · Community service can involve anything from gardening to helping in old people's homes.involve doing something: · The plan involves converting the old canteen into a sports hall.
to make someone take part in something to ask or encourage someone to take part in something, especially by encouraging them to do this: · I always try to involve the whole class.involve somebody in something: · A good manager will try to involve everyone in the decision-making process.· The school has gained improved exam results by involving parents more in their children's education.
to make someone become involved in a situation that they do not want to become involved in, for example an argument or a problem: · Don't go dragging me into your silly family arguments - sort it out yourself.· UN troops run the risk of being dragged into local policing problems.
to involve someone in an activity that they were not involved in before, especially so that they can provide help or advice: bring in somebody: · The President brought in Ken Khachigian to write a speech for the occasion.· The Japanese technicians were brought in because of their expertise in electronics.bring somebody in: · I don't think there's any need to bring the police in until we're sure the money is missing.
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES Carol was actively involved in running the group. I have been closely involved in the work of both committees. We hope to bring together the countries directly involved in the conflict. I became heavily involved in politics.
formal:· Your son has been involved in a car accident.
Carol was actively involved in running the group.· The men were involved in terrorist activities.
· She didn’t want to get into another argument about money.· I left to avoid becoming involved in an argument.
I have been closely involved in the work of both committees.· Apparently the commander of the army had also been involved in the conspiracy.
· Two women were taken to hospital after a crash involving a bus and a car.
We hope to bring together the countries directly involved in the conflict.· The US government became involved in a dispute with China.
formal (=it takes effort)· Trying to get my mother to change her mind requires considerable effort.
I became heavily involved in politics.· All those involved in the incident were sacked.
· He was involved in a plot to kidnap the pope.
· After university, he became involved in local politics.
· I am involved in various projects.
· Investments that provide a high return generally entail more risk.
· The soldiers were well aware of the risks involved.· The public are unwilling to accept the risks associated with nuclear energy.
· A senior government official is involved in a political scandal.
· I knew that he was involved in the drugs scene.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADVERB· The Southern Weekend identified at least two village officials said to be actively involved in the trade.· How can you get some one who was actively involved in events and put him in charge of the investigation?· A number of the disabled professionals were actively involved in disability issues.· It is also clear that the most desirable way forward would actively involve the University Convocation.· Instead of standing idly by or opposing change, the union should become actively involved in making change happen.· As far as I know, no one has used an ad which is actively involved in selling a product in quite this way.· In the Analysis section, students are actively involved in trying to solve the puzzle posed by the demonstration.
· Other forms of merger funding also involve the banks.· It also involved the fate of the greatest spawning run of salmon in the world.· The effects of indomethacin, however, may also involve alternative mechanisms.· Today such a dilemma would engross only members of a sect, but then political society was also involved.· We must also involve all recipients of services in the planning and management of such services.· But responsibility involves not just duty, it also involves response-ability, the ability to care.· He was also involved in intermittent solo projects and recordings over the years.· Meanwhile, the quest for continuity will also involve a balancing of work and personal priorities.
· They were deeply involved in the welfare of their families - apprehensive that something might go wrong.· Carol had been deeply involved with her work there and had loved it.· The multinationals that stand to benefit were deeply involved in the negotiations to establish Gats.· They tell us about how they gradually adjusted as they became more deeply involved in the classroom and extracurricular experiences.· She comes from the classical tradition but is deeply involved with improvisation and had played with Bailey on several previous occasions.· I was deeply involved in other things.· Her work is deeply involved with landscape and shows an insight that is also seen in her portraiture.· She is deeply involved in litigation and negotiations in which the potential stakes for city residents are massive.
· It contains allegations which do not directly involve the third defendant.· That access is also central to patterns of trade that do not directly involve the United States.· There is obviously little room for the school to be directly involved in curriculum development at any level.· Proponents say the program can directly involve middle-class church members in the lives and struggles of the poor.· Couldn't some students be more directly involved in interviewing the people who will be working alongside them?· It was the first such public statement by any high-ranking law-enforcement official directly involved in the Ray case.· But beyond this officials may be even more directly involved in policy planning.· Why is the government directly involved in providing defence, schools, and health services?
· In the purchaser/provider situation, they may be heavily involved in audit and standard setting.· He got them much more heavily involved at all levels.· Nevertheless, the clearinghouse personnel are heavily involved in running conferences under the sponsorship or organization of other bodies.· He was heavily involved in charities before; now the load is greater.· Work has not started yet because our tree feller has been heavily involved in clearance work after the recent storms.· General Electric, like Boeing, is heavily involved in international markets.· What also needs to be emphasized is that civil servants are also heavily involved in making policy.· In fact, the group was heavily involved in designing the course and raising funds for it.
· Indeed it seemed to me that what they were involved in was some sort of violence, and I felt frightened.· The crew, police said, has been involved in at least 10 homicides since last spring.· He is aware that what he is involved in now is nothing less than Thatcherite self-help.· This is fortunate as I was interested in reading the section on carbon in connection with a project I am involved in.· Detectives believe the pair were murdered when a drugs deal which Mr Pettitt was involved in went tragically wrong.· His car was involved in in collision with an articulated lorry.· Basically, the things I've been involved in have always been different and I've been lucky.· She says the branch will be getting involved in potentially controversial planning applications.
· These often involve music and activities related to the theatre.· It often involves hard choices, not to mention extensive data gathering and analysis.· The reflective process often involves work in other curriculum areas, be it discussion, writing, artwork, computer programming.· By their very nature they must be worked where they occur and extraction often involves environmental nuisance and danger.· Traces of more than 37, 000 guns from those cities show that Ring of Fire guns were often involved in crime.· Eurocurrency business is in very substantial sums and also often involves governmental or governmental agency transactions.· Reengineering often involves a radical rethinking of all business operations.
· The recognised craft trades open to women, usually involving needlework, were most often low paid, sometimes exceedingly so.· For a fiveor six-year-old, adding will usually involve piling up beans, buttons, or nuts.· For presentation purposes, this usually involves converting key elements of the analysis back to the original scale.· Also, the disagreements between the two bosses usually involve subtleties in emphasis, priorities, and the like.· A buy-out usually involves some form of leverage, in that financing is provided by banks and investment institutions.· In nature, the elements form stable chemical compounds with each other, usually involving oxygen.· The search for anti-cancer drugs, for example, usually involves trials of chemical compounds on human tumour cells.· The systems usually involved staring for hours at charts showing the history of bond prices.
NOUN· The total number of accidents involving cyclists in Darlington rose by one to 31.· The accidents, which involved streetcars and cable cars, caused $ 3. 6 million in damages and injured 10 people.· Analysis of accidents involving bus passengers in future years will be undertaken.· It was the first fatal accident involving ValuJet since the bargain airline began operations in October 1993.· Of those accidents, 19 involved fatalities.· There were a few accidents involving aircraft at Coningsby and one incident occurred shortly after the Washington entered service.· There were 9,319 non-fatal accidents involving machinery, said the Health and Safety Executive.
· These often involve music and activities related to the theatre.· Consideration is given first to the anatomic arrangement of the nervous and skeletal muscle systems involved in this activity.· The systems approach to educational technology involves four basic activities or stages: 1.· Neither was involved in procurement activities.· The first signs of breeding will probably involve some serious digging activity, often round the bases of the rocks.· Until last week, Kaczynski had neither been arrested nor involved in radical political activity, a law enforcement official said.· But the Research Board is hardly likely to get involved in a policing activity.· George Hearst has been involved in the activities of the Hearst Corporation since 1948 and a director for 40 years.
· There was also an unwillingness to interfere in cases involving security of the state.· The Bennis case was the first civil forfeiture case on record involving prostitution in Wayne County, where Detroit is located.· In all but exceptional cases, wounding will involve a battery.· There have been a number of court cases involving the question of whether videotaping constitutes fair use.· The conditions are designed to distinguish cases involving issues of supervision from those involving issues of review.· One of her cases involved a 17-year-old girl whose father routinely attacked the family, once with a baseball bat.· In many cases this has involved rewording of Learning Outcomes but little change to the basic philosophy of the module.
· The mechanisms are likely to involve changes at both sides of the synapse.· Severe risk was involved in any abrupt change in the way in which we dealt with journalists.· For the new system to be introduced properly involves a change of constitution and a further vote.· Two implications are involved in the change of meaning given to Moira and Okeanos.· This involves a change of character for Mason, who has decided to become, in his words, a lager lout.· Instead of standing idly by or opposing change, the union should become actively involved in making change happen.· But they would involve considerable changes for taxpayers, tax advisers and the Inland Revenue.· That will involve significant change from the separation, suspicion, and even outright confrontation that have existed for decades.
· It must involve the minimum of effort. 2 Replicability.· And it almost always involves an effort integrated with the efforts of others to form a combined final product.· To create a sound involves a huge corporate effort.· The proactive approach involves considerably more effort but is more likely to produce a positive result.· Clinton and Gore became involved in the effort when the California project was in the planning stages.
· They can generally undertake big surveys involving large numbers of people and they provide statistics and interpretations of them.· This study is significant because it was unusually well controlled and involved a large number of research subjects: 417.· Previous evidence has shown that fluent braille involves a number of subsidiary perceptual, cognitive and manual skills.· Blow, one of the most powerful lobbying firms in Washington, and was involved in a number of business ventures.· Learning and training involve a number of aspects beyond the implementation of appropriate learning rules.
· The project is not a shining example of a service that now fully involves disabled people and is controlled by them.· We made him get involved with the people he was working with.· They can generally undertake big surveys involving large numbers of people and they provide statistics and interpretations of them.· His job involved talking to people who had made claims for workers' compensation.· This is known to involve approximately 1,200 people.· Far more interesting than your average conversation that involves people or a good old fashioned joke I don't think.· The next stretching exercise involves two people.· It should involve as few people as possible.
· Reactions are carried out at high pressure and temperature and the processes involve large scale filtration, drying, milling and packing.· The loss of consciousness results from the epileptic process involving hippocampal regions of the medial temporal lobes.· Moreover, a clear idea of the processes involved is essential for the formulation of a truly beneficial therapy.· That process involves matching voter files with change-of-address forms and Arizona vital statistics.· The whole process of massage involves yielding to another's care.· This process did not just involve individuals but seemed to involve the entire fast-lane culture as a whole.· Most important of all, the process does not involve the high temperatures of a conventional foundry.· Part of the estimating process had involved calculating how many detailed drawings were needed.
· Many construction projects will involve some element of loan finance.· A capital project can involve an additional 100 men.· Delighted Bangor principal Professor Eric Sunderland said the money would be used for two projects involving quality and collaborative research initiatives.· The next stage of the project involves delivering training for coaches, assessors and verifiers, based on agreed standards of competence.· The project involves a complete re-think of the museum's identity.· These range from a short expedition task taking three hours, to twelve-week projects involving considerable interaction with the local community.
· Buyers who habitually purchase supplies from one supplier may recognise that change involves unwarranted risk.· Covert sensitization requires no special equipment, involves minimal risk to patients, and can easily be conducted on an outpatient basis.· This is known as trading in maturities, but, however, it does involve an element of risk for a bank.· Creativity inevitably involves taking risks, and, in Great Groups, it is understood that the risk taker will sometimes stumble.· However, the investment in all assets except for short-term government debt involves some degree of risk.· Staying will involve great risks, of which both the victim and the church should be aware.· Many sales situations involve risk to the buyer.· While sometimes it can lead to more control, it also involves great risk and therefore stress.
· This shift in political opinion was partly due to a succession of further scandals involving the insurance and commodities markets.· There were a number of corporate scandals, mostly involving illegal political funding.· He is examining a campaign finance scandal involving Bank Bali that has connections to former president B.J.· His request was denied after the scandal involving his superiors became public in November.· Speculation continued, however, that Pinochet would agree to resign in return for a quiet settlement of scandals involving his regime.· And highly-publicized scandals involving charity fraud have made potential givers wary.· A narrowly avoided divorce scandal involving a prominent Member of Parliament.· There have been plenty of City frauds and scandals involving Conservative supporters.
· This involves the active use of structures and vocabulary introduced by the video.· Secret-Key Cryptography Secret-key cryptography involves the use of a shared key for both encryption by the transmitter and decryption by the receiver.· The research involves the use of primary source materials in national and local archives.· Perhaps most important is the growing chance for miscalculation that accompanies any policy involving the use of force.· If the desired end of conversion involves the use of inquisitorial means is not the concept of love distorted?· It involves the use of celestial recurrences for the practical purpose of regulating daily activity.· Many searches involve the use of more than one source, and all searches require that the most appropriate source be chosen.· Managers have probably sanctioned the purchase of computer hardware and software but have not involved themselves with their use.
· Her husband had been very involved in his work, she tells the Coroner.· All of this involves a lot of work, and not just for the children!· Because the technique involves work with genes it must be approved by an independent ethical committee.· If higher education is not involved, school-to-work will not succeed.· The construction of four 900-MWe units at a single site involves ten years' work and up to 6000 people.· Proviso four: I have made a point of using the real names of the teachers and schools involved in this work.· Boraston was so much involved in war work that his assistant.· This is the gap between what people needed to stay engaged and healthy at work and what most jobs actually involved.
VERB· They became involved after some of the cult's former members attempted suicide.· Parents of very quiet children might watch how a teacher encourages such individuals to become more involved in class.· However, as more libraries in more educational sectors become involved in user education, this becomes less manageable.· Now the military, especially the air force, is becoming much more involved in drug interdiction.· Violent and chaotic scenes occurred as thousands of people became involved in a desperate attempt to register.· She joined Oracle in 1990, and became involved with Ellison in 1991, the suit said.· Other members of the family became involved in these businesses.· And when patients become so involved, the color of the Dying Time changes.
· It was a long time before I did anything or went anywhere, and then I got involved in the church.· Meanwhile, Citic is using its financial might to get more involved in the mainland economy.· Nor did she get involved in the Dreyfus affair.· Kobe looks to score too much rather than get his teammates involved.· His book is about Shakespeare's style without getting too involved in the minutiae of Shakespeare's language.· Although Clare spoke lightly about it, Carolyn understood that it mattered, and that Clare wanted her to get involved.· When teens get involved in volunteering, they sense quickly the benefit to both the community and their own souls.
PHRASES FROM THE ENTRYPHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
- A most significant departure for some one so senior to involve himself personally.
- Because even if Antoinette didn't exist Rohan wouldn't involve himself with me - at least not seriously.
- For why should anyone involve themselves with a stranger when the one thing that everybody had in plenty was trouble?
- I chose to involve myself in matters best left alone.
- It has involved itself energetically in such issues as pub opening hours and the additives and adjuncts used in the brewing process.
- She didn't let the undertakers involve themselves in this intimate business.
- What these writers seem to mean is that Artemis did not involve Herself with men.
- Civil society is constituted by the social relationships and processes outside paid employment and not immediately affected by the state.
- Henry's memory, of course, seemed only defective in matters that immediately concerned him.
- No one is more anxious that the penalties should be apt for the crime than those most immediately affected by prison disorder.
- The availability of land played a crucial part in relations between the landowning class and those immediately concerned with its cultivation.
- The hearing is technically in public, though it is very rare for anyone other than those immediately involved to be present.
- The problem is to convince those who are not so immediately affected.
- Those most immediately affected given support.
- We are not immediately concerned whether they are based on off-line, optical discs or on online technology by way of broadband networks.
WORD FAMILYnouninvolvementadjectiveinvolved ≠ uninvolvedverbinvolve
1if an activity or situation involves something, that thing is part of it or a result of it: What will the job involve? I didn’t realize putting on a play involved so much work.involve doing something Running your own business usually involves working long hours.2to include or affect someone or something: These changes will involve everyone on the staff. There have been four accidents involving Forest Service planes.3to ask or allow someone to take part in somethinginvolve somebody in (doing) something Try to involve as many children as possible in the game. We want to involve the workforce at all stages of the decision-making process.4involve yourself to take part actively in a particular activityinvolve in Reilly involves himself in every aspect of his company’s business.