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Today’s Word: Liaison
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Liaison
[ lee-ey-zawn, lee–uh-zon, -zuhn or, often, ley-; lee-ey-zuhn, -zon; French lye-zawn ]
noun, plural li·ai·sons [lee-ey-zawnz, lee–uh-zonz, -zuhnz or, often, ley-; lee-ey-zuhnz, -zonz; French lye-zawn].
- the contact or connection maintained by communications between units of the armed forces or of any other organization in order to ensure concerted action, cooperation, etc.
- a person who initiates and maintains such a contact or connection.
- an illicit sexual relationship.
- Cooking. the process of thickening sauces, soups, etc., as by the addition of eggs, cream, butter, or flour.
- Phonetics. a speech-sound redistribution, occurring especially in French, in which an otherwise silent final consonant is articulated as the initial sound of a following syllable that begins with a vowel or with a silent h, as the z- and n-sounds in Je suis un homme [zhuh swee zœ –nawm].