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• i don't have much contact with my uncle.
• we've been unable to establish radio contact with the pilot.
• she's lost contact with (= no longer sees or writes to) her son.
• i finally made contact with (= succeeded in speaking to or meeting) her in paris.

contact

1. the act of communicating with somebody, especially regularly
• I don't have much contact with my uncle.
• We've been unable to establish radio contact with the pilot.
• She's lost contact with (= no longer sees or writes to) her son.
• I finally made contact with (= succeeded in speaking to or meeting) her in Paris.
• There is little contact between the two organizations.
• We're no longer in regular contact.
• The Foreign Office is currently in close contact with the Indian authorities.
• Have you kept in contact with any of your friends from college (= do you still see them or speak or write to them)?
• The organization put me in contact with other people in a similar position (= gave me their addresses or phone numbers).
• Anyone with any information about the incident is asked to get in contact with the police (= phone them or go to see them).
• two people avoiding eye contact (= avoiding looking directly at each other)
• Please ensure we have your contact number (= phone number) in case we need to reschedule.
• I'll give you my contact details (= phone number, email address, etc.)
• The society's website provides contact information.

Extra Examples

• Here's my contact number while I'm away.
• He carefully avoided eye contact.
• You should make contact with them by email before you call.
• Have you had any direct contact with the director of the company?
• He never makes eye contact with me.
• I put my cousin in contact with a friend who works at the company.
• I have very little contact with Simon now.
• Let's try to stay in contact!
• Maintaining contact after many years can be difficult.
• She is still in close contact with Sarah.
• She was deprived of all human contact for three weeks.
• There has been no contact between them for several years.
• When I arrive Delhi I'll get in contact with him.
• We first established contact with the organization in 1999.
2. the state of meeting somebody or having to deal with something
• She always avoided contact with the press.
• He'd prefer a job where he doesn't have to be in direct contact with the public.
• In her job she often comes into contact with (= meets) lawyers.
• Children should be brought into contact with poetry at an early age.
3. an occasion on which you meet or communicate with somebody; a relationship with somebody
• Even the US, which has no embassy there, is beginning to forge contacts.
• We have good contacts with the local community.
• The company has maintained trade contacts with India.
4. a person that you know, especially somebody who can be helpful to you in your work
• social/personal contacts
• I've made some useful contacts in journalism.
• She has several contacts in New York.
• He has a contact at the White House.

Extra Examples

• He has a lot of good contacts in the music industry.
• He used his contacts to get his son a publishing job.
• I made a lot of useful business contacts at the conference.
• It takes time to build up contacts.
5. the state of touching something
• a fear of physical contact
• The disease is spread by contact.
• infections transmitted through sexual contact
• His fingers were briefly in contact with the ball.
• This substance should not come into contact with food.
• This pesticide kills insects on contact (= as soon as it touches them).
• This chemical is liable to explode on contact with water.
• She blushed at the sudden contact of his hand against her arm.

Extra Examples

• The disease is transmitted through physical contact.
• For a brief moment their lips were in contact.
• The light will go out on contact with water.
• There should be no contact between the separate samples.
6. an electrical connection
• The switches close the contacts and complete the circuit.
7. a contact lens (= a small round piece of thin plastic that you put on your eye to help you see better)
8. a person who has recently been near to somebody with a contagious disease and so might have caught the infection from them
9. a place where you go or a person that you speak to when you are dealing with an organization
• The receptionist is the first point of contact most people have with the clinic.

Word Origin

• early 17th cent.: from Latin contactus, from contact- ‘touched, grasped, bordered on’, from the verb contingere, from con- ‘together with’ + tangere ‘to touch’.