n.
- communication or cooperation between people or organizations.
- a sexual relationship, especially one that is secret.
- the binding or thickening agent of a sauce.
- Phonetics the sounding of a consonant that is normally silent at the end of a word, because the next word begins with a vowel.
Etymology
C17 (as a cookery term): from Fr., from lier ‘to bind’.
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