"touch base" meaning in English

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  "lang_code": "en",
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          "kind": "topical",
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          "name": "Baseball",
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            "Ball games",
            "Sports",
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      "derived": [
        {
          "_dis1": "92 8",
          "word": "Touch Base Policy"
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      "glosses": [
        "To touch a base, usually with a foot but sometimes with a hand."
      ],
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        "(baseball) To touch a base, usually with a foot but sometimes with a hand."
      ],
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          "word": "touch bases"
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        "ball-games",
        "baseball",
        "games",
        "hobbies",
        "lifestyle",
        "sports"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "_dis1": "98 2",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "in baseball",
          "word": "koskea pesää"
        }
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        {
          "text": "Touch base with your boss before you start work to make sure you understand the project.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2014, A. Meredith Walters, Light in the Shadows, Simon and Schuster, page 55",
          "text": "I had met with Dr. Todd right before dinner. He had wanted to touch base with me about my ongoing treatment.",
          "type": "quotation"
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        "To meet or make contact with someone, usually to consult, review, visit, or communicate."
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        [
          "meet",
          "meet"
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        [
          "make contact with",
          "make contact with"
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        [
          "consult",
          "consult"
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        [
          "review",
          "review"
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        [
          "visit",
          "visit"
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          "communicate",
          "communicate"
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        "(by extension, colloquial, Canada, US, usually with \"with\") To meet or make contact with someone, usually to consult, review, visit, or communicate."
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        "with \"with\""
      ],
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          "_dis1": "2 98",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "to consult, visit or communicate",
          "word": "puhua"
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          "_dis1": "2 98",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "note": "with kanssa",
          "sense": "to consult, visit or communicate",
          "word": "keskustella"
        },
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          "_dis1": "2 98",
          "code": "pl",
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          "sense": "to consult, visit or communicate",
          "word": "skontaktować"
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  "word": "touch base"
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  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "Touch Base Policy"
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        "singular",
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      "form": "touched base",
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  "pos": "verb",
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      ],
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        "To touch a base, usually with a foot but sometimes with a hand."
      ],
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(baseball) To touch a base, usually with a foot but sometimes with a hand."
      ],
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        "ball-games",
        "baseball",
        "games",
        "hobbies",
        "lifestyle",
        "sports"
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          "type": "example"
        },
        {
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          "text": "I had met with Dr. Todd right before dinner. He had wanted to touch base with me about my ongoing treatment.",
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        }
      ],
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        "To meet or make contact with someone, usually to consult, review, visit, or communicate."
      ],
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          "Canada"
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        [
          "US",
          "American English"
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          "meet"
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          "make contact with"
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        [
          "consult",
          "consult"
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        [
          "review",
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          "visit",
          "visit"
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          "communicate",
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        "(by extension, colloquial, Canada, US, usually with \"with\") To meet or make contact with someone, usually to consult, review, visit, or communicate."
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    {
      "word": "touch bases"
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  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "in baseball",
      "word": "koskea pesää"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to consult, visit or communicate",
      "word": "puhua"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "note": "with kanssa",
      "sense": "to consult, visit or communicate",
      "word": "keskustella"
    },
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      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "to consult, visit or communicate",
      "word": "skontaktować"
    }
  ],
  "word": "touch base"
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