communicationnoun
uk/kəˌmjuː.nɪˈkeɪ.ʃən/us/kəˌmjuː.nəˈkeɪ.ʃən/B1 [ U ] the act of communicating with people:
Television is an increasingly important means of communication.
We are in direct communication with Moscow.
With no decent phone signal, communication is difficult.
There's very little communication between mother and daughter (= they do not have a good relationship).
a course on communication skills
[ C ] formal a message or a letter:
We received your communication of 11 March and are sorry to inform you that we won't be attending the conference.
communications [ plural ]
the various methods of sending information between people and places, especially phones, computers, radio, etc.:
the communications industry
ways of moving between one place and another:
Its commercial success as a city is partly due to its excellent rail and road communications.
More examples
- Lack of communication in a marriage causes serious problems.
- The successful applicant for the position will be a well-motivated self-starter who has excellent communication skills.
- They showed a documentary on animal communication.
- Business people often think that fluency and communication are more important that grammar when speaking.
- With no phone or radio equipment, they had no means of communication.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Communicating & keeping in touch
- ahold
- bell
- catch up
- communicate
- communicative
- drop
- give sb a bell idiom
- hear
- interact
- interaction
- pick
- pick up the phone idiom
- radio silence
- raise
- rapporteur
- reach out to sb
- ring (sb) back
- send
- send word idiom
- touch
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You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics:
Communications - general words
Roads & routes in general
Travelling