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secondary contact

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noun

Sociology.
  1. communication or relationship between people characterized by impersonal and detached interest on the part of those involved.


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By contrast, data for Karnataka shows its numbers for primary and secondary contact tracing have fallen since September.

From BBC • Dec. 3, 2020

Because the oils can have effect up to a year on clothing or tools, cleaning them from these contaminated items can help you avoid a secondary contact.

From Time Magazine Archive

In what ways does publicity function as a form of secondary contact in American life?

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

By so doing that subspecies came into secondary contact with its own parent stock with which it was still in reproductive continuity in Utah.

From Speciation of the Wandering Shrew by Findley, James S.