liaison
Plural: liaisons
Noun
- Communication or cooperation; a person who facilitates this.
- a usually secretive or illicit sexual relationship
- a channel for communication between groups
- "he provided a liaison with the guerrillas"
- A thickening for sauces, typically based on egg yolks.
- Communication between two parties or groups.
- Cooperation, working together.
- A relayer of information between two forces in an army or during war.
- Any person who relays information between two groups or organizations.
- A tryst; a romantic meeting.
- An illicit sexual relationship or affair.
- Fusion of two consecutive words and the manner in which this occurs.
- Fusion of two consecutive words and the manner in which this occurs.
- The pronunciation of a normally silent final consonant when the next word begins with a vowel.
Verb
- To liaise.
Examples
- A strong liaison between vowels and consonants is key to forming long words.
- As a community liaison, I work to make sure the general public knows about our organization's work.
Origin / Etymology
Borrowed from French liaison (“binding”), from Latin ligātiō (stem ligātiōn-; whence the English doublet ligation), derived from ligō (“I bind”), from Proto-Indo-European *leyǵ- (“to bind”).
Synonyms
affair, affaire, amour, contact, inter-group communication, intimacy, involvement, link, go-between, mediator
Scrabble Score: 7
liaison: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordliaison: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
liaison: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary