LIAISON | Meaning, Definition In Cambridge English Dictionary

Meaning of liaison in English liaisonnoun uk /liˈeɪ.zɒn/ us /liˈeɪ.zɑːn/

liaison noun (LINK BETWEEN)

Add to word list Add to word list [ S or U ] communication between people or groups who work with each other: liaison between He blamed the lack of liaison between the various government departments.liaison with Your role will involve monitoring of projects as well as liaison with other agencies.liaison officer The police have appointed a liaison officer to work with the local community. [ C ] mainly US someone who helps groups to work effectively with each other: She served as a liaison between the different groups.liaison with He acted as a liaison with the parent company in Japan. Communicating & keeping in touch

• approach
• backchannel
• bell
• buzz
• call back phrasal verb
• call someone up phrasal verb
• check in phrasal verb
• interaction with someone/something
• interactive
• interactively
• interface
• interface with someone
• interpersonal skills
• lifeline
• ring
• transmittable
• unfollow
• unmute
• unreachable
• unreached

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International relations: diplomacy & mediation

liaison noun (RELATIONSHIP)

[ C ] formal a sexual relationship, especially between two people not married to each other: He's had a number of liaisons. Marriage, cohabitation & other relationships

• adulteress
• affinal
• as husband and wife idiom
• be an item idiom
• be shacked up idiom
• have an affair
• have something going with someone idiom
• hear wedding bells idiom
• hitched
• honest
• matrimony
• mixed marriage
• monogamist
• monogamous
• ménage à trois
• serial monogamy
• seven-year itch
• shack
• shack up phrasal verb
• situationship

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liaison noun (IN SPEECH)

[ U ]   phonetics   specialized the act of joining sounds together, for example pronouncing a consonant that is not usually pronounced at the end of a word, because the next word begins with a vowel sound Linguistics: phonology & phonetics

• accommodation
• alliterative
• alliteratively
• alveolar
• apheresis
• bilabial
• diphthong
• glottal stop
• interdental
• intrusive
• labial
• labialize
• mispronounce
• phonotactics
• plosive
• postalveolar
• postconsonantal
• realization
• the International Phonetic Alphabet
• unpronounceable

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liaison | American Dictionary

liaisonnoun [ C/U ] us /liˈeɪˌzɑn, ˈli·ə-/ Add to word list Add to word list communication between groups and the useful relationship that this creates, or a person who does the communicating between the groups: [ U ] There is an unfortunate lack of liaison between the departments. A liaison is also a romantic relationship. (Definition of liaison from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press) What is the pronunciation of liaison?

Translations of liaison

in Chinese (Traditional) 聯繫, 聯絡，聯繫，溝通, 聯絡官，聯絡人… See more in Chinese (Simplified) 联系, 联络，联系，沟通, 联络官，联络人… See more in Spanish enlace, contacto, relación… See more in Portuguese relação, ponto de contato, caso… See more in Turkish in French in Dutch in Czech in Danish in Indonesian in Thai in Vietnamese in Polish in Swedish in Malay in German in Norwegian in Ukrainian irtibat, ilişki, bağlantı… See more liaison… See more verbinding… See more vztah, spolupráce, styčný… See more kontakt, samarbejde, forbindelses-… See more hubungan… See more ผู้ประสานงาน… See more sự liên lạc… See more współdziałanie, współpraca, łączni-k/czka… See more kontakt, förhållande, förbindelse… See more perhubungan… See more die Zusammenarbeit, Verbindungs-…… See more forbindelse, kontakt(-), samarbeid(s-)… See more зв'язок, взаємодія… See more Need a translator?

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