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BRIEFING
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Detailed instructions, as for a military operation
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("briefing" is a kind of...):
informing; making known (a speech act that conveys information)
Domain category:
armed forces; armed services; military; military machine; war machine (the military forces of a nation)
Derivation:
brief (give essential information to someone)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
-ing form of the verb brief
