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fraternise

Sexology
verb To keep intimate company with a person.
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Because fresh troops and ammunition began to arrive as winter came on, the British High Command decided to put a complete end to fraternization by launching a series of large-scale raids.
Major General Leslie received briefings on sexual harassment, the proper handling of sexual assault allegations and cases, administrative investigations, standards of conduct, fiscal law, unlawful command influence, improper relationships and fraternization, law of federal employment, domestic support to civil authorities, freedom of information and privacy act, and federal labor-management relations.
Indeed, the problem of sexuality far exceeds the issue of consensual fraternization and its effect on the credibility of women soldiers.
Fraternization occurs when a Government employee and a contractor who are involved in the same contract congenially socialize in any manner.
Whatever the reason for avoiding a total prohibition of fraternization in the workplace, the "love contract" may provide the next best layer of necessary legal protection.
Meeting in No Man's Land: Christmas 1914 and Fraternization in the Great War.
The crime of fraternization, one of the most interesting crimes prosecuted under Article 134, is a good place to start.
There are two general approaches that are used by employers to curtail romantic relationships at work--a "no dating" or "no fraternization" policy.
British and American posters warned soldiers of this reason to avoid fraternization, using a variety of devices to promote either abstinence or careful precaution.
The goal of this series was to create a venue that would promote peer fraternization and clearly present relevant and current market information from leading industry professionals.
On the other hand, a confrontation between the sailors--entertained on deck by a male dancer and three high-kicking chorus girls--and a bunch of dockside workers, angry at the fraternization of white cuties with black males, economically highlights the era's racism while dramatizing the crewmen's transformation into a fighting unit.