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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