Noun: liaison ,lee'ey,zón
- A channel for communication between groups
"he provided a liaison with the guerrillas";
- link, contact, inter-group communication
- A usually secretive or illicit sexual relationship
"The politician's liaison with his secretary became a public scandal";
- affair, affaire, intimacy, involvement, amour
- (linguistics) a sandhi in which a normally silent final consonant is pronounced when the next word begins with a vowel
"In French, liaison occurs in phrases like 'les amis'"
Derived forms: liaisons
Type of: channel, communication channel, line, sexual relationship
Encyclopedia: Liaison