He started his own business last year, after a brief flirtation with political life.flirtationflir‧ta‧tion /flɜːˈteɪʃən $ flɜːr-/ noun 
He started his own business last year, after a brief flirtation with political life.2[uncountable] behaviour that shows you are attracted to someone sexually: She had no objection to a little mild flirtation.3[countable] a short sexual relationship which is not serious SYN flingflirtation with She had a brief flirtation with Tim.
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
- All the senior partners in his law firms had flirtations with coronary incidents except him.
- Constanze was clearly not ill enough to be incapable of a little mild flirtation!
- His cool flirtation with death and his ambiguous fate were the stuff from which legends are born.
- She had enjoyed the camaraderie of colleagues, and the mild flirtation which often underlay it.
- She manages her customers expertly, often through a bantering kind of flirtation, the chief idiom of the night.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY He started his own business last year, after a brief flirtation with political life. She had no objection to a little mild flirtation. She had a brief flirtation with Tim.COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADJECTIVE
1[countable] a short period of time during which you are interested in somethingflirtation with He started his own business last year, after a brief flirtation with political life. She had no objection to a little mild flirtation. She had a brief flirtation with Tim.· A brief flirtation with the Communist Party - done mainly to shock, he supposed.
· She had enjoyed the camaraderie of colleagues, and the mild flirtation which often underlay it.· Constanze was clearly not ill enough to be incapable of a little mild flirtation!· None the less, an element of mild flirtation makes office life more pleasant.
He started his own business last year, after a brief flirtation with political life.2[uncountable] behaviour that shows you are attracted to someone sexually: She had no objection to a little mild flirtation.3[countable] a short sexual relationship which is not serious SYN flingflirtation with She had a brief flirtation with Tim.