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1928 C. F. S. Gamble Story N. Sea Air Station xiii. 221 [Lord Fisher said in 1916] ‘I want a soldier..to keep in touch with the Navy and so “liaise” or exchange inventions which may be suitable.’

1941 Amer. Notes & Queries Dec. 141/1 The kind of grammatical economy found in a recent (British) Home Guard instruction sheet—in the event of certain circumstances, it stated, two groups were ordered to ‘liase’ with two others.

1942 New Statesman 1 Aug. 75/1 ‘To liaise’..was at first frowned on by the pundits: its usefulness..soon came to outweigh its objectionableness.

1942 Tee Emm (Air Ministry) 2 128 He then hurriedly climbed into a Spit and shot off to ‘liaise’ with his old Squadron.

1946 A. Lee German Air Force 25 Göring never acquired the happy knack of liasing satisfactorily with Germany's senior army generals.

1952 World Rev. Sept. 20 The manufacturer, too, has advertizing people on his own staff who liaise with the advertizing agency.

1958 L. Durrell Mountolive vi. 139 For convenience it can work to us and liaise with our Service Departments.

1959 Guardian 15 Oct. 10/7 He would expect absolute obedience from his subordinates... It remains to be seen whether he could also ‘liaise’ successfully.

1962 Times 28 Mar. 3/1 He will liaise between the dressing room and the press.

1970 Country Life 1 Oct. 846/3 It would seem advisable for the host to detach well briefed members of the shoot staff to liase with the field trial stewards.

1974 Times 18 Feb. 20/8 It would seem that the Government statisticians do not: (a) Liaise with other departments, [etc.].

1948 L. MacNeice Holes in Sky 71 The liaising aircraft mounts.

1965 New Statesman 10 Dec. 919/3 Paris..was..in a state of great confusion... There seemed little liaising to be done.