liaison

Meanings

Noun

• Communication between two parties or groups.
• Co-operation, working together.
• A relayer of information between two forces in an army or during war.
• Any person who relays information between two groups or organizations.
• A tryst, romantic meeting.
• An illicit sexual relationship or affair.
• Fusion of two consecutive words and the manner in which this occurs.
• The pronunciation of a normally silent final consonant when the next word begins with a vowel.

Verb

• To liaise.

Origin

• Borrowed from French liaison ("binding"), from Latin ligātiō (stem ligation-) (English ligation), derived from ligō, from Proto-Indo-European *leyǵ- ("to bind"). ligation.