Meaning of LIAISON
| Pronunciation: | | `leeey'zong
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- [n] a channel for communication between groups; "he provided a liaison with the guerrillas"
- [n] a usually secretive or illicit sexual relationship
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| | Synonyms: | | affair, affaire, amour, contact, inter-group communication, intimacy, involvement, link |
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| | See Also: | | channel, communication channel, line, sexual relationship | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Li`ai`son"\ (l[-e]`[asl]`z[^o]N"), n. [F., fr. L.
ligatio, fr. ligare to bind. See {Ligature}, and cf.
{Ligation}.]
A union, or bond of union; an intimacy; especially, an
illicit intimacy between a man and a woman.
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| | Related Terms: | | accord, addition, adjunct, adulterous affair, adultery, affair, affairs, affiliation, affinity, agent, agglomeration, agglutination, aggregation, alliance, amor, amour, approximation, articulation, assemblage, association, bond, bracketing, broker, closeness, clustering, combination, communication, concatenation, concourse, concurrence, confluence, congeries, conglomeration, conjugation, conjunction, connectedness, connection, contact, contiguity, contrariety, convergence, copulation, coupling, cuckoldry, dealings, deduction, disjunction, distributor, entanglement, eternal triangle, filiation, flirtation, forbidden love, gathering, go-between, hanky-panky, homology, hookup, illicit love, infidelity, intercommunication, intercourse, interlinking, intermediary, intermedium, intimacy, intrigue, jobber, joinder, joining, jointure, junction, knotting, link, linkage, linking, love affair, marriage, mediary, mediator, medium, meeting, merger, merging, middleman, mutual attraction, nearness, pairing, propinquity, proximity, rapport, relatedness, relation, relations, relationship, romance, romantic tie, similarity, splice, symbiosis, sympathy, tie, tie-in, tie-up, triangle, unfaithfulness, unification, union, wholesaler, yoking |
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