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From inboxing to thought showers: how business bul...
If you ask them to reach out they might go down there and see them, set up a meeting, speak to a friend that works there, etc.
That's where you can use the more general and succinct term, "contact".
fjsolwmv
on Dec 28, 2017
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Only if you like using words incorrectly. "Contact" isn't a verb if you really are the pedantic prescriptivist you are presenting yourself as.
Intermernet
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Both Wiktionary and dictionary.com list definitions of "contact" as a verb. I don't have access to the OED at the moment, but I assume they would have it listed as a valid verb as well.
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That's where you can use the more general and succinct term, "contact".