liaise
liaise Lexical Profile
liaise Game Scores & Validity
• verb
To establish a working relationship and maintain regular communication with another person, group, or organization in order to cooperate on a matter of mutual concern.
"Her primary responsibility is to liaise with international clients and ensure their project requirements are met."
To act as an intermediary or link between two or more people, departments, or organizations.
"The project manager will liaise between the engineering team and the marketing department throughout the product launch."
Word Nuance & Usage
'Liaise' is strictly intransitive and is almost always followed by 'with' (for people or organizations) or 'between' (when acting as an intermediary). A common spelling error is omitting the second 'i' ('liase').
• Rhymes for liaise
Word Origin & Etymology
Coined in the 1920s as a back-formation from the noun 'liaison', originally used in British military slang. 'Liaison' itself comes from French, ultimately from the Latin 'ligare', meaning 'to bind'.