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Liaison   /liˈeɪzˌɑn/  /lˈeɪzˌɑn/   Listen
Liaison

noun
1.
A usually secretive or illicit sexual relationship.  Synonyms: affair, affaire, amour, intimacy, involvement.
2.
A channel for communication between groups.  Synonyms: contact, inter-group communication, link.






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"Liaison" Quotes from Famous Books



... on the way to the fleet, Bors said helplessly to Gwenlyn, "I'm not the right man to be the liaison with you people. But this might make us a pretty costly conquest for Mekin! With luck, we may trade them ship for ship! They won't miss the ships they lose, but it'll be a lot of satisfaction ...
— Talents, Incorporated • William Fitzgerald Jenkins

... use of this latter phase of her character to serve their own ends. She had a talent which was used for mischief, but her vulgarity and egotism were quite deplorable. She would have risked the torments of Hades if she could but have embarked upon a liaison with Napoleon. She plied him with letters well seasoned with passion, but all to no purpose. She came to see him at the Rue Chantereine, and was sent away. She invited him to balls to which he never went. But she had opportunities given her which were ...
— The Tragedy of St. Helena • Walter Runciman

... and freely to the little man. As public liaison officer he had explained the computer system hundreds of times. He knew it ...
— Two Plus Two Makes Crazy • Walt Sheldon

... of romance between her and her cousin Frank? She was the last woman in the world to run away with a man, or to endanger her position by a serious indiscretion; but there might, perhaps, be a something between her and her cousin,—a liaison quite correct in its facts, a secret understanding, if nothing more,—a mutual sympathy, which should be chiefly shown in the abuse of all their friends,—and in this she could indulge her passion for ...
— The Eustace Diamonds • Anthony Trollope

... forgotten his successor's name) were, of course, also under me; so I had a nice little command now of three English and four French battalions, four English and three French batteries, and a French squadron. St Andre as liaison officer was of the greatest possible use to me, being both tactful and suggestive as to dealing with my new command, and keeping up ...
— The Doings of the Fifteenth Infantry Brigade - August 1914 to March 1915 • Edward Lord Gleichen



Words linked to "Liaison" :   line, channel, communication channel, sexual relationship



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