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adj. Short in time, duration, length, or extent.

adj. Succinct; concise: a brief account of the incident.

adj. Curt; abrupt.

n. A short, succinct statement.

n. A condensation or an abstract of a larger document or series of documents.

n. Law A formal outline listing main contentions along with supporting evidence and documentation.

n. Law A document containing all the facts and points of law pertinent to a specific case, filed by an attorney before arguing the case in court.

n. Roman Catholic Church A papal letter that is not as formal as a bull.

n. A briefing.

n. Short, tight-fitting underpants.

v. To summarize.

v. To give instructions or preparatory information to: briefed the astronauts before the mission.

idiom. in brief In short.

n. A writ summoning one to answer to any action.

n. An answer to any action.

n. A memorandum of points of fact or of law for use in conducting a case.

n. An attorney's legal argument in written form for submission to a court.

n. The material relevant to a case, delivered by a solicitor to the barrister who tries the case.

n. A short news story or report.

n. A summary, précis or epitome; an abridgement or abstract.

v. To knowledgeably summarize a recent development to some person with decision-making power.

v. To write a legal argument and submit it to a court.

adj. Short in duration.

adj. Concise; terse; succinct.

adj. Rife; common; prevalent.

ad. Briefly.

ad. Soon; quickly.

n. A short concise writing or letter; a statement in few words.

n. An epitome.

n. An abridgment or concise statement of a client's case, made out for the instruction of counsel in a trial at law. This word is applied also to a statement of the heads or points of a law argument.

n. A writ; a breve. See Breve, n., 2.

n. A writ issuing from the chancery, directed to any judge ordinary, commanding and authorizing that judge to call a jury to inquire into the case, and upon their verdict to pronounce sentence.

n. A letter patent, from proper authority, authorizing a collection or charitable contribution of money in churches, for any public or private purpose.

n. a type of men's underpants without legs, fitting tightly and held by an elastic waistband; also called Jockey shorts.

v. To make an abstract or abridgment of; to shorten.

Small with respect to length; short.

Abbreviated; cut or made short: as, the brief skirts of a ballet-dancer. [Humorous.]—

Short in duration; lasting a short time.

Short in expression; using few words; concise; succinct.

Clever; good: as, a brief discourse; “he gae us a very brief sermon,”

Keen.

Quick; ready; eager.

[Appar. a particular use of brief, short (hence quick, active, rife?); but some suppose a confusion with rife.] Common; rife; prevalent: as, I hear smallpox is very brief there.

In short.

Synonyms Short-lived, ephemeral, transitory, fleeting.

Compact, compendious.

n. A short or concise writing; a short statement or account; an epitome.

n. Specifically In law:

n. A writ summoning one to answer to any action; or any precept of the sovereign in writing issuing from any court and ordering something to be done. In Scots law, same as brieve (which see). In England, a letter patent from proper authority authorizing a public collection or charitable contribution of money for any public or private purpose; a license to make collections for repairing churches, making up for losses by fire, etc.: sometimes called a church brief or king's letter.

n. A writing in general; a letter.

n. In music, same as breve

n. The name given to certain official documents emanating from the pope, having a less solemn character than a bull.

n. [Also spelled breif, breef, ⟨ OF. bref, brief, a spell, talisman, ⟨ ML. breve, in pl. brevia, a writing containing magical characters carried as an amulet or talisman: a particular use of L. breve, a writing, as above.] A spell. Burns. [Scotch.] Synonyms

To abridge; shorten; make a brief of: as, to brief pleadings.

To furnish with a brief; instruct by a brief.

In brief; in short; briefly.

In or after a short time; soon; quickly.

n. a document stating the facts and points of law of a client's case

n. a condensed written summary or abstract

adj. (of clothing) very short

adj. of short duration or distance

v. give essential information to someone

adj. concise and succinct

"The brief you will be making now will consist of an _introduction_, which states whatever facts and principles are necessary to an understanding of the brief, and the _brief_ itself, which consists of a series of propositions, each supporting your main contention, and each in turn supported by others, which again may each be supported by another series."

short    concise   

briefed    briefing    briefs   

abstract    précis    synopsis    outline    instruct    apprise    apprize   

short    in brief   

brevity   

jockey shorts   

briefly    control brief    briefs    brevity    briefing   

condensed    summary    short    transitory    short-lived    concise    compendious    succinct    curt    terse   

Leif    aperitif    bas-relief    beef    belief    chief    debrief    disbelief    fief    grief   

quick    final    long    frequent    formal