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to give a summary of important information to someone
- When I mentioned various aircraft he'd flown, the aircraft Dad had briefed me about, he grinned again and said, "Heck, I do believe we got an aviation expert on our hands."p. 234.4
briefed = given a summary of important information (to)
- Then he decided I needed some solid grounding in aviation history, and he stayed up half the night briefing me, by the light of a kerosene lamp, on the test-flight program, basic aerodynamics, and the Austrian physicist Ernst Mach.p. 233.6
briefing = giving a summary of important information (to)
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