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primary contact

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noun

Sociology.
  1. a communication or relationship between people that is characterized by intimacy and personal familiarity.


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Secondary contacts are those who have not met the infected person but have been in close contact with a primary contact.

From BBC • Dec. 17, 2025

Balwani was the primary contact for investor Daniel Grossman of PFM Management, Holmes said.

From The Verge • Nov. 23, 2021

But I do know that your primary contact, a business development manager, is no longer with the company.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 13, 2021

Snowden’s primary contact with the publisher was his principal legal adviser, Ben Wizner, director of the American Civil Liberties Union’s Speech, Privacy, and Technology Project.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 1, 2019

Intimacy: bibliography, 332; and the desire for response, 329-30; form of primary contact, 294-85.

From Introduction to the Science of Sociology by Park, Robert Ezra

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