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LIAISON
liaison, link, contact, inter-group communication
(noun) a channel for communication between groups; “he provided a liaison with the guerrillas”
affair, affaire, intimacy, liaison, involvement, amour
(noun) a usually secretive or illicit sexual relationship
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
liaison (countable and uncountable, plural liaisons)
Communication between two parties or groups.
Co-operation, working together.
A relayer of information between two forces in an army or during war.
A tryst, romantic meeting.
(figuratively) An illicit sexual relationship or affair.
(linguistics) The phonological fusion of two consecutive words and the manner in which this occurs, for example intrusion, consonant-vowel linking, etc. In the context of some languages, such as French, liaison can refer specifically to a normally silent final consonant, being pronounced when the next word begins with a vowel, and can often also include the intrusion of a "t" in certain fixed chunks of language such as the question form "pense-t-il".
Hypernym: sandhi
Verb
liaison (third-person singular simple present liaisons, present participle liaisoning, simple past and past participle liaisoned)
(proscribed) To liaise.
Anagrams
• isolani
Source: Wiktionary
Li`ai`son", n. Etym: [F., fr. L. ligatio, fr. ligare to bind. See Ligature, and cf. Ligation.]
Definition: A union, or bond of union; an intimacy; especially, an illicit intimacy between a man and a woman.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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