Liaise vs Assist - What's the difference?
liaise | assist |
To establish a liaison.
To act between parties with a view to reconciling differences.
To cooperate, consult and discuss in order to come to a common solution.
(label) To stand (at a place) or to (an opinion).
(label) To attend
* 1967 , The Rev. Loren Gavitt (ed.), Saint Augustine's Prayer Book: A Book of Devotion for members of the Episcopal Church , revised edition, West Park, NY: Holy Cross Publications, p. 8:
To help.
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(sports) To make a pass that leads directly towards scoring.
A helpful action or an act of giving.
(sports) A statistic used in different sports to quantify the act of helping another player score points or goals; in baseball, an assist is defensive, allowing a teammate to record a putout.
As verbs the difference between liaise and assist
is that liaise is to establish a liaison while assist is to stand (at a place) or to (an opinion).As a noun assist is
a helpful action or an act of giving.liaise
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Verb
(liais)assist
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Verb
(en verb)- A great part of the nobility assisted to his opinion.
- To assist at Mass every Sunday and Holy Day of Obligation.
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Derived terms
* assister * assistiveNoun
(en noun)- The foundation gave a much needed assist to the shelter.
- He had two assists in the game.