to talk to someone for a short time to find out how they are or what they think about something: I just wanted to quickly touch base with you: did you get an email from my secretary about the meeting?
What does touching base with someone mean?
Touch base is an idiom often seen in business contexts meaning to make contact or reconnect with someone briefly, such as in "let's touch base next week." The phrase is thought to have some relation to baseball where both runner and fielders have to "touch base" in order to be safe or record an out.
How do you use touch base in a sentence?
How to Use Touch Base In a Sentence
- I called my colleagues every week of my sabbatical to touch base .
- My mom likes touching base daily, but I think a weekly check-in would be fine.
- The bank holds an annual meeting to touch bases with the shareholders.
