briefed

English

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /bɹiːft/

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Rhymes: -iːft

Adjective

briefed (not comparable)

Wearing briefs
- 2002, H. H. Fuller, It's a Wrap, page 56:
  The grace notes of garters flowing around laced bikini briefed hips.
- 2007, Johnmichael Simon, “Pizza Lady”, in Sonatina, page 60:
  your whirling skirt flying higher above your burnished thighs, your spinning white cotton breifed hips
- 2014, David Coad, The Metrosexual: Gender, Sexuality, and Sport, page 93:
  Jim Palmer is America's first protometrosexual briefed beef.
Having been given a briefing, informed.
- 1983, Sally M. A. Lloyd-Bostock, ‎Brian R. Clifford, Evaluating Witness Evidence, page 44:
  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;
- 1990, New York Court of Appeals. Records and Briefs, page 3899:
  Everybody tells us that the doctors are very briefed and supported, but the poor rural pharmacist has to do his best while at the same time run dispensary, undertake roles and possibly attend his books at home in the evening.
- 1991 August 12, Louise Fickel, “WordPerfect Windows wows testers”, in InfoWorld, volume 13, number 32, page 1:
  "Being able to add columns and rows [in a table] by pushing an icon button on-screen was very impressive," a briefed source said.
- 2010, Marshall Harrison, A Lonely Kind of War, page 14:
  We're up and briefed and we've been monitoring your festivities with Blade Flight, but you boys were having so much fun we didn't want to interrupt.
As specified in a briefing.
- 2002, Eddie Deerfield, Hell's Angels Newsletter, page 99:
  All sorties made good their briefed takeoff time.
- 2011, Stuart J Wright, An Emotional Gauntlet, page 159:
  The continuing eighteen aircraft maintained their briefed course until reaching the Initial Point of the bomb run.
- 2012, Morag Tait, “Collaboration as a Working Process”, in Hanif Kara, ‎Andreas Georgoulias, ‎Jorge Silvetti, editor, Interdisciplinary Design, page 254:
  Architecture can be considered as art allied to function: it fulfils a briefed purpose as well as being delightful.
- 2022, Paul Bingley, ‎Mike Peters, Bomb Group, page 218:
  The christening party then moved on to Ridgewell's control tower, where they watched the 381st's B-17s take-off on a briefed mission to Merseburg, Germany.
summarized; reduced to a brief summary.
- 1952, United States. Congress. House. Expenditures in the Executive Departments, Hearings, page 238:
  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?
- 1965, United States. Congress. House, Hearings - Volume 1, page 155:
  The U.S. Army Command & General Staff School picked it up for its Military Review, and the State Department sent a briefed version to all 375 U.S. diplomatic posts overseas.
- 1922, United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce, War Department Appropriation Bill, 1924, page 24:
  In compliance with your suggestions of letter, 27th ultimo, please fine inclosed a briefed yet explicit plan for the reformation of our salmon business.
(law) 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.
- 1914, Cases Argued and Determined in the Court of Appeals of the state of Colorado, page 181:
  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.
- 1994, New Matter, page 37:
  On November 8, 1996, in a closely watched and heavily briefed appeal, the Sixth Circuit, en banc, reversed an earlier appeals decision that held that a copyshop's preparation of "coursepacks," created by photocopying portions of copyrighted works and combining the excerpts for sale to students for class use, constituted "fair use" within the meaning of the Copyright Act.
- 1997, Individual Employment Rights Cases - Volume 12, page 1095:
  We will wait for a properly briefed appeal to determine this important issue .
- 2004, Timothy R. Johnson, Oral Arguments and Decision Making on the United States, page 96:
  Third, if an argument is in both the briefs (litigant, amicus, or litigant and amicus) and in the oral argument transcripts, I code this as a briefed and orally argued issue .
(of a lawyer) Having cases to work on; actively involved in legal work.
- 1849 November, “The Avatar of Attorneyism”, in Fraser's Magazine for Town and Country, volume 40, page 572:
  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 to become a briefed barrister.
- 1899 June 10, H. B. Baildon, “Robert Louis Stevenson: Essayist, Novelist and Poet”, in The Living Age, volume 221, number 2866, page 683:
  As an advocate he had no success, for after walking the floor of the Parliament House, as it is called in Edinburgh, along with other briefed and briefless advocates, and securing only one case, which brought him four guineas, he abandoned that practice and settled down seriously to his true life work of literature.
- 1913 June, L. J. Maxse, “The End of the Asquith Legend”, in The National Review, volume 61, number 364, page 684:
  No one can accuse the Unionist Party of seeking to make indecent capital out of the folly, the misfortunes and the scandals which have become the chief stock-in-trade of latter-day Radicalism since the great historic Party fell under the auspices of barristers— briefed and briefless.

Derived terms

fully briefed

Verb

briefed

simple past and past participle of brief

Derived terms

Anagrams

debrief, defiber, defibre, fibered, firebed