get involved

1. Become associated, especially in an emotional or sexual way. For example, He joined the company last year but never really got involved in the work, or It's been two years since Tom got involved with Jean.

Example Sentences

"I would encourage people, not just on Broadwater Farm but on all estates, to get involved in what happens where they live," he said.

Read more on BBC

“I don’t want to get involved,” he says.

Read more on The Wall Street Journal

You can't one week say, 'we don't want to get involved because it ruins the flow of the game' and the next week turn round and say, 'this is a disgrace that VAR's not intervened here'.

Read more on BBC

But if you are a lawyer and this piques your interest, look to see how you can get involved with your local bar, because that is where the power is, and it is currently rarely being used to punish those who deserve to be punished.

Read more on Slate

“You tend to have people in the top ranks of American society get involved in these things—usually not knowingly, but their name’s on the marquee,” says Edward J. Renehan Jr., who wrote a biography of Jay Gould and other books on that era’s robber barons.

Read more on The Wall Street Journal

Related Words

• hamper 
• hinder 
• impede 
• inhibit 
• intervene 
• intrude 
• meddle 
• prevent