liaisons

noun

1. 1

   Communication between two parties or groups.

2. 2

   Co-operation, working together.

3. 3

   A relayer of information between two forces in an army or during war.

4. 4

   A tryst, romantic meeting.

5. 5

   An illicit sexual relationship or affair.

6. 6

   The phonological fusion of two consecutive words and the manner in which this occurs, for example intrusion, consonant-vowel linking, etc. In the context of some languages, such as French, liaison can refer specifically to a normally silent final consonant, being pronounced when the next word begins with a vowel, and can often also include the intrusion of a "t" in certain fixed chunks of language such as the question form "pense-t-il".