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communicate

com·mu·ni·cate

UK/kəˈmjuːnɪkeɪt/ US/kʌˈmjunʌˌkeɪt/ common

verb

1.

transmit information

  • “Please communicate this message to all employees”
  • “pass along the good news”
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2.

transmit thoughts or feelings

  • “He communicated his anxieties to the psychiatrist”
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3.

transfer to another

  • “communicate a disease”
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4.

join or connect

  • “The rooms communicated”
5.

be in verbal contact; interchange information or ideas

  • “He and his sons haven”
  • “;”
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Origin

Adapted borrowing of Latin commūnicāt- (past participial stem of commūnicō (“share, impart; make common”)) + -ate (verb-forming suffix), from commūnis (“common”) + -icō. Compare French communiquer and its older (and now obsolete) English cognate from Middle French, communique.

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