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Definition of Touch base
1. Verb. Establish communication with someone. "Did you finally connect with your long-lost cousin?"
Generic synonyms: Interact
Related verbs: Connect
Derivative terms: Connection, Connexion
Definition of Touch base
1. Verb. (baseball) To touch a base, usually with a foot but sometimes with a hand. ¹
2. Verb. (idiomatic colloquial US Canada usually with "with") ''(derived from the baseball term)'' To consult, visit, or communicate. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Touch Base
Literary usage of Touch base
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Migration and the Labour Market in Asia: Recent Trends and Policies by Nihon Rōdō Kyōkai, Japan Institute of Labour (2003)
"Before October, 1980, while immigration control was maintained between the border
of China and Hong Kong, a "touch-base" policy was adopted, which allowed ..."
2. International Migration in Asia: Trends and Policies by Oecd (2001)
"Prior to October 1980, while immigration control was maintained between mainland
China and Hong Kong, a ''touch-base" policy was in place, whereby illegal ..."
3. Athletic Games in the Education of Women by Gertrude Dudley, Frances Kellor (1909)
"... if they hold the ball in one hand and touch them with the other or their feet;
if they catch the ball and touch base before the runner gets there, ..."
4. Scientific Baseball by John Joseph McGraw (1913)
"... or touch base runner out with it; but if base runner, in a- tempting to reach
a base, detach it from its fastening before being touched or forced out, ..."
5. Child Training: A System of Education for the Child Under School Age by Virgil Mores Hillyer (1915)
"He then searches for them, and they try to run in and touch base before he spies
them out, saying " I spy " and touches base. The first one caught becomes ..."
6. The Sanctuary of Demeter and Kore: Terracotta Figurines of the Classical by Gloria S. Merker (2000)
"Right leg folded under, but knee does not touch base. Left lower leg stretched
to corner of base; hand rests on ..."
7. Okay, Girls by Helen Gilbert (2006)
"I felt I just had to touch base with the family. Corpus Christi Corpus Christi
Naval Air Station is a large base located on the Gulf of Mexico. ..."
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