n. 1. Dealings or communications between persons or groups. 2. Sexual intercourse. [Middle English entercours, commercial dealings, from Old French entrecours, from Latin intercursus, a running between, interposition, from past participle of intercurrere, to mingle with : inter-, inter- + currere, to run; see kers- in the Appendix of Indo-European roots.] |
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