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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
liaise
verb
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Confidentiality is assured, unless the interviewee requests the Welfare Officer to liaise with line or other management staff.
▪ He had put a Chief Superintendent in charge and suggested to him that he should liaise with the Royalbion security people.
▪ In its future strategy St William's has to liaise with many existing institutions and agencies, at higher or lower levels.
▪ Skinner was also given responsibility for liaising closely with the troika at the apex of Bush's re-election campaign.
▪ Teams attempting to develop the service infrastructure undoubtedly try to liaise with and support voluntary groups, as the Nottinghamshire experience shows.
▪ The role will include liaising with social services departments, other statutory authorities and national and regional blind groups.
▪ This includes identifying sites of particular importance and liaising with local authorities, site owners and tenants to improve protection and access.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
liaise

liaise \li*aise"\ (l[=e]*[=a]z"), v. i. [By back-formation from liaison.]

  1. To form or maintain a liaison[3].

  2. To act as a liaison[4].

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
liaise

1928, back-formation from liaison. Said to be a coinage of British military men in World War I. Related: Liaised; liaising.

Wiktionary
liaise

vb. 1 To establish a liaison. 2 To act between parties with a view to reconciling differences. 3 To cooperate, consult and discuss in order to come to a common solution.

WordNet
liaise

v. act between parties with a view to reconciling differences; "He interceded in the family dispute"; "He mediated a settlement" [syn: intercede, mediate, intermediate, arbitrate]

Usage examples of "liaise".

Pennyhaugh is gone more and more, liaising with bureaucrats in Parliament, which protrudes like a verdigrised nail from the meeting of the rivers.

He got good at it fast, shooting back requested information to the road units, playing the computer keys like it was a barrelhouse piano, liaising with other Troops when it was necessary, as it was after a series of violent thunderstorms whipped through western PA one evening toward the end of June.

The truth was Lucy Patou had been solely responsible for reporting to and liaising with the Centers for Disease Control.

Pendergast had shown up without a car and driver, no backup, and he hadn’t liaised with the local Dodge office.

It was he who had liaised so successfully with the upper-echelon officials when MacArthur had given the defeated Japanese a new democratic Constitution which had survived into the present.

You probably liaised mostly through an enforcer called Trepp, out of New York, The woman you're dealing with ultimately is Reileen Kawahara.

I've liaised with the commissary at High Vrazel to help with quantities of game and staples when the extra bods start arriving.

In the United States, Interpol liaises with the United States National Central Bureau.

Reagan is taking these people seriously all right: he has hired a Moral Majority operative to liaise with the horn-again community.

If I were to ask him point blank for information he would merely tell me to liaise with the other groups - Mil.

The thing is they spend their time liaising with the major services and therefore know a lot more than we do and we resent that Our only consolation is that we know one or two things they can never hope to get their hands on because they're filed in a heat-proof box with an all-eventualities cutout circuit and a bang-destruct and they'd never get near the thing, even if they took off their little suede shoes.