liaisonnoun
uk/liˈeɪ.zɒn/us/liˈeɪ.zɑːn/liaison noun (LINK BETWEEN)
[ S or U ] communication between people or groups who work with each other:
[ C ] mainly US someone who helps groups to work effectively with each other:
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Communicating & keeping in touch
- ahold
- bell
- catch up
- communication
- communicative
- give sb a bell idiom
- hear
- interact
- interaction
- pick
- pick up the phone idiom
- radio silence
- raise
- rapporteur
- reach out to sb
- ring (sb) back
- send
- send word idiom
- signal
- touch
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liaison noun (RELATIONSHIP)
[ C ] formal a sexual relationship, especially between two people not married to each other:
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Marriage, cohabitation & other relationships
- adulteress
- affinal
- as husband and wife idiom
- be an item idiom
- be shacked up idiom
- hear wedding bells idiom
- hitched
- honest
- husband
- intermarriage
- marriage counseling
- marriage equality
- marriageable
- marry
- marry in haste, repent at leisure idiom
- shack
- shack up
- something
- together
- wedlock
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liaison noun (IN SPEECH)
[ U ] specialized phonetics the act of joining sounds together, for example pronouncing a consonant that is not usually pronounced at the end of a word, because the next word begins with a vowel sound
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Linguistics: phonology & phonetics
- alveolar
- approximant
- articulatory
- assimilation
- clear l
- clipped
- consonant
- inflection
- nasalization
- onomatopoeia
- palatal
- palato-alveolar
- pharyngeal
- phoneme
- pronounce
- silent letter
- velum
- voiced
- vowel
- weak form
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