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touch base (with someone) touch base (with someone)To contact someone to update them or receive an update from them. I was just calling to touch base since it's been a few weeks since we last spoke. Will you please touch base with the marketing team and find out how they're progressing?See also: base, touchtouch base (with someone)to talk to someone; to confer with someone briefly. I need to touch base with John on this matter. John and I touched base on this question yesterday, and we are in agreement.See also: base, touchtouch base withMake contact or renew communications with, as in I'll try to touch base with you when I'm in Ohio, or The candidate touched base with every ethnic group in the city. This idiom comes from baseball, where a runner must touch each base without being tagged before a run can be scored. See also: base, touchtouch base If you touch base with someone, you contact them, often when you have not spoken to them or seen them for a long time. Note: In baseball, players have to hit the ball and then run round all four corners or bases to score a run. Being there gave me a chance to touch base with some old friends that I hadn't seen for a year. A brief phone-call is often made during the month to touch base and update the parent on any changes in the basic treatment plan. Note: In baseball, batters have to touch the first, second, and third bases to score a run. See also: base, touchtouch base briefly make or renew contact with someone or something. informal 1984 Armistead Maupin Babycakes In search of a routine, he touched base with his launderette, his post office, his nearest market. Base in these three phrases refers to each of the four points in the angles of the ‘diamond’ in baseball, which a player has to reach in order to score a run.See also: base, touchtouch ˈbase (with somebody) (informal) make contact with somebody again: She travels to Boston every week to touch base with her office. ♢ I spent an hour or two sending emails and touching base with my friends.See also: base, touchtouch base verbSee touch base with someoneSee also: base, touchtouch base (with someone) tv. to make contact with someone. I wanted to touch base with you just in case something had gone wrong. See also: base, someone, touch |