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/liˈeɪzˌɑn/ /lˈeɪzˌɑn/ Listen

noun

liaison n.

A union, or bond of union; an intimacy; an interrelationship.

Specifically, An illicit sexual relation between a man and a woman; a sexual afffair.

Specifically: A process of communication between parts of an organization or between two organizations acting together for a common purpose.

Hence: A person whose function it is to maintain such communication.

(Phonetics) A pronunciation of a consonant sound that would be otherwise silent, such as the final consonant of certain French words, when the following word begins with a vowel sound.

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Etymology of 'Liaison'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Liaison" Quotes from Famous Books

... cement. There is in most of us, Arabs or otherwise, a deep-seated sporting instinct (is that the right word?) which the system of legalized unions was contrived to curb, but cannot; if connubial life were a hazardous liaison there would be ...

— Fountains In The Sand - Rambles Among The Oases Of Tunisia • Norman Douglas

... reports with message from Liaison officer. All groups reached the objectives. No enemy encountered on the right, but a party on the left is believed to be returning with prisoners. We blew up their dugouts and left their front line ...

— "And they thought we wouldn't fight" • Floyd Gibbons

... tendency to epilepsy, but from the point of view of the naturalistic novelist she offered many advantages. When a mere girl she married a man named Rougon, who died soon afterwards, leaving her with a son named Pierre, from whom descended the legitimate branch of the family. Then followed a liaison with a drunken smuggler named Macquart, as a result of which two children were born, the Macquarts. Adelaide's original neurosis had by this time become more pronounced, and she ultimately became insane. Pierre married and had five children, but his financial affairs had not prospered, ...

— A Zola Dictionary • J. G. Patterson

... of the world, had promptly cut off supplies. Madame Nanteuil, despite her years, had resumed an old lover, out of her love for her child, that she might not want for anything. She had renewed her former liaison with Tony Meyer, the picture-dealer in the Rue de Clichy. Tony Meyer was a poor substitute for Girmandel; he was none too free with his money. Madame Nanteuil, who was wise and knew the value of things, did not complain on that account, and she was rewarded ...

— A Mummer's Tale • Anatole France

... we do know of her up to the time of her liaison with Cardinal Roderigo is that she was born on July 13, 1442, this fact being ascertainable by a simple calculation from the elements afforded by the inscription on her tomb ...

— The Life of Cesare Borgia • Raphael Sabatini

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