liaison

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They said the liaison was a fact, and marvelled that a fellow like Armine should be willing to be "a bad last."

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  1. noun An instance or a means of communication between different groups or units of an organization, especially in the armed forces.
  2. noun One that maintains communication: served as the President's liaison with Congress.
  3. noun A close relationship, connection, or link.
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  • Did the drive to maintain genetic diversity include star travelers, even though genes might have drifted and the offspring of a liaison could be a sterile mule Judiciously, I said, “Delicious.” She wasn't quite my type, but Careful Are you Ma Landlady's daughter She nodded. —  Asimov's Science Fiction, March 2002
  • "But I am not yet certain that such a liaison is appropriate," she said. —  Piers Anthony - [Xanth 29] - Pet Peeve (2005)
  • Thus, to the indiscretion of the liaison was added that of deceiving her sire and dam. —  Vale of the Vole
  • As an evidence of Saint-Evremond's unimpaired faculties at a great age, the charms of his person attracted the attention of the Duchess of Sandwich, one of the beauties of the English Court, and she became so enamored of him, that a liaison was the result, which lasted until the time of Saint-Evremond's death. —  Life, Letters, and Epicurean Philosophy of Ninon de L'Enclos, the Celebrated Beauty of the Seventeenth Century
  • What do you say to a little partnership between us Really, sir Do not misunderstand; I do not say 'liaison'--I say partnership; I am not talking of love, but of business What kind of business?" —  The Queen's Necklace
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  1. French, from Old French, from Latin ligātiō, ligātiōn-, from ligātus, past participle of ligāre, to bind; see ligate.

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  1. French, a union, an entanglement, = Provencal liazo = Spanish ligacion = Portuguese ligação, from Latin ligatio(n-), a binding: see ligation, of which liaison is but a F. form.
 

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