Liaison
[lɪ'eɪz(ə)n;-zɒn] or [lɪ'ezɑn]
Definition
(noun.) a channel for communication between groups; 'he provided a liaison with the guerrillas'.
Checker: Paulette--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) A union, or bond of union; an intimacy; especially, an illicit intimacy between a man and a woman.
Editor: Stacy
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [Fr.] [1]. Union, bond of union.[2]. Amour, love intrigue.
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Definition
n. union or bond of union: connection esp. if illicit between the sexes: in French the linking in pronunciation of a final consonant to the succeeding word when that begins with a vowel.
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Examples
- True, he hated promiscuity even worse than marriage, and a liaison was only another kind of coupling, reactionary from the legal marriage. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- I will send the liaison officer. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- You already know what she was, and how my liaison with her terminated. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- For some time George strove to keep the liaison a secret. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
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