liaison
li`ai`son´ Pronunciation: lė`ã`zôN´
| n. | 1. | A union, or bond of union; an intimacy; an interrelationship. |
| 2. | An illicit sexual relation between a man and a woman; a sexual afffair. | |
| 3. | A process of communication between parts of an organization or between two organizations acting together for a common purpose. | |
| 4. | A person whose function it is to maintain such communication. | |
| 5. | (Phonetics) A pronunciation of a consonant sound that would be otherwise silent, such as the final consonant of certain French words, when the following word begins with a vowel sound. |
| Noun | 1. |  liaison - a usually secretive or illicit sexual relationship |
| 2. | liaison - a channel for communication between groups; "he provided a liaison with the guerrillas" |