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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
liaison
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
close
▪ But the need for close liaison goes further.
▪ This involved close liaison with both the General Manager and the Foreman.
▪ There are likewise signs at the referral stage of closer liaison with other agencies.
▪ In either case there needs to be close liaison between those responsible for training and those responsible for operations.
▪ There will be closer liaison with other agencies, but difficulties will inevitably surface from differing viewpoints.
▪ Young children are not admitted to the Unit, but there is close liaison with the Paediatric Department.
▪ This close liaison was maintained with all practices throughout the study.
▪ Responsibilities will encompass close liaison with hospital physicians, trial initiation and monitoring of clinical trials to Good Clinical Practice standard.
good
▪ Better techniques, better documentation systems, better communication between all members, better customer liaison and contracts.
▪ The organization grows, project and task groups appear creating a need for good liaison.
▪ It is extremely important that there should be good liaison between the hospital-based service and the primary care team.
juvenile
▪ Two policemen are responsible for community relations and two policewomen for juvenile liaison, one each of whom is a sergeant.
■ NOUN
committee
▪ The meeting had ended in agreement to establish a permanent liaison committee.
▪ Not until 1980 was there a proposal to establish a permanent liaison committee between the two organizations.
▪ Other promotion and relegation issues are pending and will hinge on further liaison committee meetings as well as certain leagues' annual meetings.
▪ Community liaison committees tend to steer clear of contentious issues, and the agenda is usually set by the police.
▪ Both parties have also agreed that they will nominate representatives to begin discussions on setting up a community liaison committee.
group
▪ That nucleus then becomes the liaison group for communication with Masud.
▪ In some areas fundholders had formed liaison groups and were meeting regularly to share experiences and develop their collective expertise.
▪ A teacher in one liaison group carried out a similar experiment with one of his classes with tests on a single topic.
▪ The development of tests for the feasibility project Test development and administration Test development was undertaken in conjunction with teachers in the liaison groups.
▪ The scripts were inspected and discussed by the liaison group.
▪ For instance, a liaison group teacher reported an interesting case of lack of conservation of door width.
▪ These schools were asked to provide facilities for trying out amended versions of tests first used in liaison group schools.
▪ There were 36 liaison group schools altogether.
office
▪ After Clinton was elected in 1992, Herman was appointed head of the White House public liaison office.
▪ MI6 cooperates with MI5 through a liaison office in London.
▪ It was compiled by the university's research support and industrial liaison office and describes projects in about 50 departments.
officer
▪ To further the necessary changes within the workshop we appointed an education officer and an industrial liaison officer.
▪ Of course, the battalion commander with his artillery liaison officer was usually flying overhead.
▪ The liaison officer and local police were on the nearby road, ready to stop the traffic.
▪ Now a chief liaison officer is to go to the area to negotiate.
▪ As liaison officer and interpreter, he took part in the Gallipoli campaign in 1915.
▪ In some of those countries, those links are enhanced by the posting or exchange of drugs liaison officers.
▪ At this point I may require you to visit the scene of the occurrence accompanied by my liaison officers.
■ VERB
act
▪ The work is varied: the main objective being to act as a liaison point for our Moscow office.
▪ These fields act in liaison with the energetic and chemical processes of the body, Sheldrake believes.
establish
▪ The meeting had ended in agreement to establish a permanent liaison committee.
▪ Not until 1980 was there a proposal to establish a permanent liaison committee between the two organizations.
▪ A social investigator and lecturer, he established a cross-class liaison with Hannah Cullwick, a Shropshire servant, in the 1850s.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Associative feminist psychologies make unstable, continually changing liaisons with these social objects; and so they are associative in two senses.
▪ But Charlie also sets out on a series of scandalous liaisons and unfortunate marriages with very young girls.
▪ But hers was an unpleasant liaison.
▪ I am saying this in a letter because I am sorry to say I can not get to the next liaison meeting.
▪ Meanwhile, Augustine formed a liaison with a woman of low birth by whom he had a son.
▪ Not until 1980 was there a proposal to establish a permanent liaison committee between the two organizations.
▪ She felt that, even by Nora's standards, Constance was too headstrong for romantic liaisons.
▪ Two policemen are responsible for community relations and two policewomen for juvenile liaison, one each of whom is a sergeant.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
liaison

liaison \li`ai`son"\ (l[-e]`[asl]`z[^o]N"), n. [F., fr. L. ligatio, fr. ligare to bind. See Ligature, and cf. Ligation.]

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

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

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

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

  5. (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.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
liaison

1640s, from French liaison "a union, a binding together" (13c.), from Late Latin ligationem (nominative ligatio) "a binding," from past participle stem of Latin ligare "to bind" (see ligament). Originally a cookery term for a thickening agent for sauces. Sense of "intimate relations" is from 1806. Military sense of "cooperation between branches, allies, etc." is from 1816. The noun meaning "one who is concerned with liaison of units, etc." is short for liaison officer.

Wiktionary
liaison

n. 1 communication between two parties or groups. 2 Co-operation, working together. 3 A relayer of information between two forces in an army or during war. 4 A tryst, romantic meeting. 5 (context figuratively English) An illicit sexual relationship or affair. 6 (context linguistics English) The phonological fusion of two consecutive words and the manner in which this occurs, for example intrusion, consonant-vowel linking, etc. In the context of some languages, such as French, liaison can refer specifically to a normally silent final consonant, being pronounced when the next word begins with a vowel, and can often also include the intrusion of a "t" in certain fixed chunks of language such as the question form "''pense-t-il''". vb. (context proscribed English) To liaise.

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WordNet
liaison

  1. n. a usually secretive or illicit sexual relationship [syn: affair, affaire, intimacy, involvement, amour]

  2. a channel for communication between groups; "he provided a liaison with the guerrillas" [syn: link, contact, inter-group communication]

Wikipedia
Liaison (French)

Liaison is the pronunciation of a latent word-final consonant immediately before a following vowel sound. Technically, it is a type of external sandhi, which is disrupted in pausa.

In French, most written word-final consonants are no longer pronounced and are known as latent or mute. For example, the letter s in the word les, 'the', is generally silent (i.e., dead and phonologically null), but it is pronounced in the combination les amis , 'the friends'. In certain syntactic environments, liaison is impossible; in others, it is obligatory; in others still, it is possible but not obligatory and its realization is subject to wide stylistic variation.

Liaison

Liaison means communication between two or more groups, or co-operation or working together.

Liaison or liaisons may refer to:

  • Liaison (French), the pronunciation of a word-final consonant due to a following vowel sound in French
  • Liaison aircraft, a small aircraft used by military forces
    • Liaison pilot, a World War II pilot who flew liaison aircraft
    • Liaison Pilot Badge, a qualification badge issued by the United States Army Air Forces during World War II
  • Liaison Dunkerque-Escaut, series of large canals from Dunkerque to Mortagne-du-Nord, France
  • Liaison job, a job that links two or more specialties
  • Liaison psychiatry, psychiatry that specialises in the interface between medicine and psychiatry
  • Affair, an unfaithful or adulterous sexual relationship
  • Air Alliance, a Canadian Summit airline whose call sign was "Liaison'
  • Collaboration, people working together
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Usage examples of "liaison".

Jones lawyers explored any allegation, tip, article or book suggesting some kind of Clinton sexual liaison.

The first and most obvious was the question of why Asad Khalil had turned himself in to the CIA liaison guy at the Paris Embassy.

Then Bade looked forebodingly at the map and ordered Liaison to get General Rast for him.

How could she understand that marriage is not approached as casually as a bod liaison?

That reminded Clio uncomfortably of what Emell had said about liaisons with them.

Arshak and Gatalas and their liaison officers were already on his right when Comittus and I cantered up, and Facilis rode slightly behind them, keeping out of their way.

Aug 2011, 16:11:53 GMT To: Tammy Gulyas, Argos Mission Liaison From: Argos PM Roland Threlkeld Re: Argos trouble?

Dalik Ophon was standing next to a woman clad in combat utilities, Shalla Inam, local time liaison for AD 2294.

Major Wang Seng Khang, a former battalion commander who served as leader for 10,000 Hmong in his refugee camp, took five years to find a job as a part-time church liaison.

The telephone cable linking the flagship with the shore hummed with a constant stream of messages as the Fleet Headquarters maintained close liaison with the Naval General Staff in Tokyo and made arrangements with the Kure Naval Base for ship repairs, maintenance and supply.

Her mother, Losset, had had numerous public adulterous liaisons, until Sanker finally had her executed for treason.

At Division Headquarters two miles in the rear, a liaison captain with the G3 section boldly concluded that it was just a ruse to get rear echelon soldiers to go to the front lines where they would be greeted by the raucous razzberries of the infantrymen and maybe an unfriendly sniper bullet or two.

A warning bell went off in his head but he turned it off, paid no attention, and instead he listened to an inner voice that said, Okay, Suter, you want liaison and intelligence support and acquisition.

What worried Lianne was that Wen Zhi Tang was eager to form a liaison with Seng, hoping it would lead to the Tangs being viewed with more favor by the mainland Chinese.

She had disappointed them since the instant of her birth, living proof of Johnny Tangs liaison with a foreign woman.