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brief
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American Sniper
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- I also learned how to take the images and paste them onto PowerPoint for briefings and the like.
p. 132.8briefings = meetings to give summaries of important information
- The Polish NCO doing the briefing stroked his bushy beard as he pointed at me.
p. 139.2briefing = giving a summary of important information
- His briefs always started the same way: "What are you sons of bitches doing?" he'd snarl.
p. 248.9briefs = meetings to give summaries of important information
- I went up to see their commander and brief him on what had happened.
p. 260.9brief = give a summary of important information to
- We'd been briefed to expect a hell of a fight, and everything we'd been through over the past few weeks in the east reinforced that.
p. 290.8briefed = told in a summary of important information
- Whenever someone came on the gun, the person he was relieving would brief him quickly, describing who'd been in the neighborhood, etc.
p. 339.9 *brief = give a summary of important information to
- After we got back, command called us together for a briefing so we could tell a famous author and former SEAL what had happened in battle.
p. 360.9briefing = meeting to give a summary of important information
Uses with a meaning too common or too rare to warrant foucs:
- THE WEEK AFTER HELL WEEK IS A BRIEF RECOVERY phase called walk week.
p. 39.6brief = of short duration
- As a new guy, I was appreciative of the brief leave.
p. 65.8
- It was a brief conversation.
p. 154.9 *
- After the pace of the battle in the city, I was definitely ready for a brief vacation.
p. 206.5
- WE WORKED BACK INTO THINGS SLOWLY, STARTING with brief overwatches with the Army.
p. 332.4
Definitions:
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(1)
(brief as in: briefed her) to give a summary of important information to someone
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(2)
(brief as in: legal brief) a summary of important facts -- especially an opinion of a legal case
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(3)
(meaning too common or too rare to warrant focus) Brief is most commonly encountered as an adjective meaning "of short duration." Other meanings derive from the idea of short--as when making a long story short by summarizing it, or when wearing briefs (underwear).