the contact or connection maintained by communications between units of the armed forces or of any other organization in order to ensure concerted action, cooperation, etc.
a person who initiates and maintains such a contact or connection.
an illicit sexual relationship.
Cooking. the process of thickening sauces, soups, etc., as by the addition of eggs, cream, butter, or flour.
Phonetics. a speech-sound redistribution, occurring especially in French, in which an otherwise silent final consonant is articulated as the initial sound of a following syllable that begins with a vowel or with a silent h, as the z- and n-sounds in Je suis un homme[zhuh swee zœ -nawm]. /ʒə swi zœ ˈnɔm/.
Origin of liaison
1640–50; <French, Old French <Latin ligātiōn- (stem of ligātiō) a binding. See ligation
The city’s police and fire chiefs serve as the liaisons to the commission, meaning it’s precisely the opposite of an independent group.
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Drummond’s departure came after romantic liaisons with subordinates, and complaints from employees that senior men at the company enjoyed impunity when it came to inappropriate behavior.
Google names Halimah DeLaine Prado as new general counsel|Jeff|August 25, 2020|Fortune
Piece Co. will then seamlessly source the artisans and be your liaison for collaboration.
Q&A With Designer Rachel Roy|Cynthia Allum|November 3, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Hollande officially left Royal for Trierweiler in 2007, although their liaison began in 2005.
Suddenly, in the midst of their liaison, Brody notices his SUV parked outside the window.
‘Homeland’: The 7 Plot Points You Need to Remember for the Season 3 Premiere|Andrew Romano|September 27, 2013|DAILY BEAST
My job was to actually draft the ceasefire and serve as liaison with Arafat's envoy in the process—Hani al-Hassan.
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Kennedy called him out of retirement to act as a liaison with Charles de Gaulle during the Cuban Missile Crisis.
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Every one indeed knew that he had a liaison with a beggar woman, to whom he gave ten kopecks every six months.
The House of the Dead or Prison Life in Siberia|Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Liaison is maintained at all points, but the attack varies from time to time.
Artificial Light|M. Luckiesh
To secure his silence they invited him constantly to their house, and a liaison with Severine followed.
A Zola Dictionary|J. G. Patterson
There was a lean, hard-bitten colonel of the American liaison force in Greece.
The Invaders|William Fitzgerald Jenkins
Her biographers usually pass over this liaison quickly, as information about it was not forthcoming.
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British Dictionary definitions for liaison
liaison
/ (lɪˈeɪzɒn) /
noun
communication and contact between groups or units
(modifier)of or relating to liaison between groups or unitsa liaison officer
a secretive or adulterous sexual relationship
one who acts as an agent between parties; intermediary
the relationship between military units necessary to ensure unity of purpose
(in the phonology of several languages, esp French) the pronunciation of a normally silent consonant at the end of a word immediately before another word commencing with a vowel, in such a way that the consonant is taken over as the initial sound of the following word. Liaison is seen between French ils (il) and ont (ɔ̃), to give ils ont (il zɔ̃)
any thickening for soups, sauces, etc, such as egg yolks or cream
Word Origin for liaison
C17: via French from Old French, from lier to bind, from Latin ligāre