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English

Noun

A short and concise summary of a situation.
:The president received a briefing on the situation before going to the press conference.

Verb

briefing

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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English briefing \briefing\ n.
1. giving detailed instructions, as for a military operation.
[WordNet 1.5]

2. a detailed set of instructions before an operation, given
to those who are to execute it.
[PJC]

3. a summary report of an operation or event after it has
occurred, by a participant or observer.
[PJC]

WordNet briefing
n : detailed instructions, as for a military operation

Moby Dictionary
account , acquaintance , admonition , advice , advising , advocacy ,
airmanship , announcement , appointment , arrangement , basic training ,
bespeaking , blue book , booking , brief , bulletin , caution , caveat ,
clearing the decks , communication , communique , consultation ,
council , counsel , data , datum , direction , directions , directory ,
dispatch , employment , engagement , enlightenment , equipment ,
evidence , exhortation , expostulation , facts , factual information ,
familiarization , final instructions , fixing , flight plan ,
flying lessons , foundation , gen , general information , groundwork ,
guidance , guidebook , handout , hard information , hiring , hortation ,
idea , incidental information , info , information , instruction ,
instructions , intelligence , knowledge , light , makeready ,
making ready , manufacture , mention , message , mobilization ,
monition , notice , notification , opinion , orders , parley ,
pilot training , pilotship , planning , prearrangement , preengagement ,
preliminaries , preliminary , preliminary act , preliminary step ,
prep , preparation , preparatory study , preparing , prepping ,
prerequisite , presentation , pretreatment , processing ,
promotional material , proof , propaedeutic , proposal , provision ,
publication , publicity , readying , recommendation , release ,
remonstrance , report , reservation , retainment , rundown , sidelight ,
spadework , statement , suggestion , taking on , the dope , the goods ,
the know , the scoop , thought , training , transmission , treatment ,
trial , tryout , warm-up , warning , washout , white book , white paper ,
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