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touch base (with someone)

To contact someone to receive an update from them. Often followed by "with (someone)." I was just calling to touch base. It had been a few weeks since we'd spoken, and I was wondering how you were doing. Will you please touch base with the marketing team and find out how they're progressing?

See also: base, touch

touch base (with someone)

to talk to someone; to confer with someone briefly. I need to touch base with John on this matter. John and I touched base on this question yesterday, and we are in agreement.

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touch base

If you touch base with someone, you contact them, often when you have not spoken to them or seen them for a long time. Note: In baseball, players have to hit the ball and then run round all four corners or bases to score a run. Being there gave me a chance to touch base with some old friends that I hadn't seen for a year. A brief phone-call is often made during the month to touch base and update the parent on any changes in the basic treatment plan. Note: In baseball, batters have to touch the first, second, and third bases to score a run.

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touch base

briefly make or renew contact with someone or something. informal

1984 Armistead Maupin Babycakes In search of a routine, he touched base with his launderette, his post office, his nearest market.

Base in these three phrases refers to each of the four points in the angles of the ‘diamond’ in baseball, which a player has to reach in order to score a run.

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touch ˈbase (with somebody)

(informal) make contact with somebody again: She travels to Boston every week to touch base with her office. ♢ I spent an hour or two sending emails and touching base with my friends.

See also: base, touch

touch base

verb

See touch base with someone

See also: base, touch

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A chance for them to touch base with the common people - before instantly forgetting all about them.

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com's Ed Center Instructors (ECI) will increase efforts to more easily touch base with individual clients during this crucial transition period.