intimacy

Word: intimacy

Context Sentence: We refer to this second global restruction as a regime of labor intimacy.

Source: Chang and Ling, Globalization and its intimate other, Filipina domestic and workers in Hong Kong.

Definition: n.U. state of being intimate; close friendship or relationship.(Oxford Advanced Learner's English--Chinese Dictionary, Fourth Edition, 1998)

Mnemonic:-mate probably means someone who has a relationship or friendship with someone else, and intimacy comes from intimate.