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briefed
- /bɹiːft/
Rhymes with -iːft
adjective
- Wearing briefs The grace notes of garters flowing around laced bikini briefed hips.
- Having been given a briefing, informed. The results showed that (a) briefed eyewitnesses were judged more confident than non-briefed eyewitnesses; (b) there was a small, but statistically significant confidence-accuracy correlation for non-briefed eyewitnesses, but briefed eyewitnesses showed no relationship;
- As specified in a briefing. All sorties made good their briefed takeoff time.
- summarized; reduced to a brief summary. I wondered—pardon me—if it would be possible as a matter of lapsing time to ask Dr. McCormick and his committee to prepare a briefed statement, item by item, of anticipated savings and the actual savings that we might have for ready reference?
- Having had one or more briefs (a memorandum of points of fact or of law for use in conducting a case or an attorney's legal argument in written form) submitted. A most interesting and thoroughly briefed case involving the right of creditors in a life insurance policy is that of Keckley v. Glass Co., 86 Ohio St. 213, 99 N. E. 299.
- Having cases to work on; actively involved in legal work. Consequently a briefless barrister who is totally without connexion, as it is delicately phrased, which means who has no attorney blood in him, who has not married an attorney's daughter, and who has no rich relations who bring grist to the attorney mill, cannot hope by any change of administration
verb
- simple past and past participle of brief
Thesaurus
Closest in meaning: abbreviated, concise, short, little, legal brief, abreast, accounted, acquainted, advised, appraised, apprised, aware, communicated, described, explained, exposed
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Talk about this word "briefed." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/briefed. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026. briefed. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/briefed "briefed." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/briefed.Cite this
@misc{briefed_2026,
title = {briefed},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
url = {https://micwyn.com/word/briefed},
urldate = {2026-11-06}
}
