liaison

An instance or a means of communication between different groups or units of an organization, especially in the armed forces.

One that maintains communication.

A sexual relationship, especially when at least one person is married or involved in a sexual relationship with someone else.

Pronunciation of the usually silent final consonant of a word when followed by a word beginning with a vowel, especially in French.

To serve as a liaison.

A bond of union; an intimacy; entanglement; commonly, an illicit intimacy between a man and a woman.

In the French language, the linking or joining in pronunciation of a final consonant, usually silent, to the succeeding word when that begins with a vowel: for example, vous (vö) and avez, when coming together, are pronounced vö zavā.

In cookery, a thickening, generally of beaten eggs, intended to combine or amalgamate the ingredients of a dish.

A union, or bond of union; an intimacy; an interrelationship.