brief
/ˈbɹif/ verb C1- To summarize a recent development to some person with decision-making power. · The U.S. president was briefed on the military coup and its implications on African stability.
- To write a legal argument and submit it to a court.
He/she/it briefs · Past briefed · Past participle briefed · -ing form briefing
Verb forms
- Base form
- brief
- He/she/it
- briefs
- Past
- briefed
- Past participle
- briefed
- -ing form
- briefing
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And, as though to add to the daily misery which this prosperous canal inflicted on the unfortunate innkeeper, whose utter ruin it was fast accomplishing, it was situated between the Rhône from which it had its source and the post-road it had depleted, not a hundred steps from the inn, of which we have given a brief but faithful description.
There was a brief pause, during which Louis XVIII.
But that brief dream is over.
He stopped at the door; Villefort gazed at him as if he had some difficulty in recognizing him; then, after a brief interval, during which the honest shipowner turned his hat in his hands,
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