Word Finder - brief

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A writ summoning one to answer to any action.

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An answer to any action.

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

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(by extension) A position of interest or advocacy.

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

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(English law) The material relevant to a case, delivered by a solicitor to the barrister who tries the case.

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A short news story or report.

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We got a news brief.

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(usually in the plural) undershorts briefs.

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I wear boxers under trousers but for sports I usually wear a brief.

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

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

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(slang) A ticket of any type.

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

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The U.S. president was briefed on the military coup and its implications on African stability.

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

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Of short duration; happening quickly.

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Her reign was brief but spectacular.

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Concise; taking few words.

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His speech of acceptance was brief but moving.

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Occupying a small distance, area or spatial extent; short.

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Her skirt was extremely brief but doubtless cool.

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Rife; common; prevalent.

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Briefly.

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Soon; quickly.

There was a brief pause.

He paused for a brief flurry of clapping.

She wrapped her arms around her knees and closed her eyes for a brief rest.

His expression revealed surprise for a brief moment, and then his eyes flashed with anger.

Gabriel growled at her, the brief touch enough to stir desire.

After a brief hesitation, he spoke.

For him it was nothing more than a brief episode of pleasure.

No, it had been there - brief and beguiling.

I can get each of you two sets of ID, birth certificate, passport, driver's license, charge cards and a brief history that will check out.

Monty, as he became known during his brief public life, succumbed to his injuries.

Cynthia sat up in bed as she read the brief passage, an uncommon glass of amber liquid in her hand Donnie deciphered it.

It was a brief lapse of concentration from his purpose at hand, catching the yellow-clad figure flowing through the curves and bends below him.

He had had a short illness, there had been a brief time of acute suffering, then all was over.

A brief silence followed.

I was never still a moment; my life was as full of motion as those little insects that crowd a whole existence into one brief day.

After handshakes and a brief chat, the pair left in Dean's pool car for the motel where Vinnie Baratto awaited.

The sun had been under a cloud all day, and there had been brief showers; but suddenly the sun broke forth in all its southern splendour.

Just as much, she feared seeing them miserable, because of her brief involvement in the mix.

In her brief absence I described how Howie squirmed and twisted while sleeping.

She was forbidden to engage the operator in any conversation and make the call as brief as possible.

After a brief discussion we decided to telephone first and leave the visit option on the table, at least for now.

It seemed to me that my wife's brief but profound statement put all else in prospective.

Finally, we have a brief respite but I hope to God they catch him soon.

Their brief search halted when a security guard swore no one had passed his way and too many corridors and stairways went in other directions, making further search difficult.

Kris's memories stirred stronger than he liked. He remembered Lilith, a beautiful Immortal whose laugh had filled him with happiness. Their love had been intense and brief, lasting less than a human year in total. One day, she was just … gone.

The remainder of the book is very brief.

After a brief look at her, he plodded back out of the dairy.

From this time, with the exception of brief intervals, his mind was completely clouded, and the duties of government were undertaken by his brother William (afterwards emperor), who on the 7th of October 1858 was formally recognized as regent.

We have now to offer a classification of the Arachnida and to pass in review the larger groups, with a brief statement of their structural characteristics.

This circumstance might, if it stood alone, be explained by placing Joel with Zephaniah in the brief interval between the decline of the empire of Nineveh and the advance of the Babylonians.

Oxe died on the 24th of October 1575, after contributing, more than any other statesman of his day, to raise Denmark for a brief period to the rank of a great power.

Of these a brief summary, beginning with the department of general literature and passing on to history and science, is subjoined.

We may conclude with brief reference to the most important aspects of the Roman doctrine.

Such in brief were the doctrine and use of the early churches, gradually systematized, developed and transformed in the churches of the Roman obedience.

The fairest and most considerable of Palacky's antagonists in the controversy aroused by his narrative of the early reformation in Bohemia was Baron Helfert, who received a brief from Vienna to write his Hus rind Hieronymus (1853) to counteract the impression made by Palacky's History.

He re-emerges for a brief moment in 1762, when the philo-German Peter III.

In the same year, after a brief exile among friends in Germany, he fled to Russia.

He resigned from the volunteer service in October 1865, was commissioned lieutenant-colonel of the 26th Infantry in March 1867, served in Texas, mostly in garrison duty, until 1874, and in 1886-1890 (except for brief terms of absence) commanded Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, and the infantry and cavalry school there.

His reign was as uneventful as it was brief.

After his death in 289 comes another miserable and obscure period of revolution and despotism, in which Greek life was dying out; and but for the brief intervention of Pyrrhus in 278 Syracuse, and indeed all Sicily, would have fallen a prey to the Carthaginians.

All hope for the city being now at an end, the Syracusans threw themselves on the mercy of Marcellus; but Achradina and the island still held out for a brief space under the Syracusan mercenaries, till one of their officers, a Spaniard, betrayed the latter position to the enemy, and at the same time Achradina was carried and taken.

Our sole information concerning his life is found in the brief summary of Jerome, written more than four centuries after the poet's death.

In the brief Traite de metaphysique the author makes his grand effort, but scarcely succeeds in doing more than show that he had no real conception of what metaphysic is.

Some British vessels carried out a brief bombardment of the Ottoman batteries at the mouth of the Dardanelles on Nov.

A complete transcript, Brief Lives chiefly of Contemporaries set down by John Aubrey between the Years 1669 and 1696, was edited for the Clarendon Press in 1898 by the Rev. Andrew Clark from the MSS.

On the 11th of March 1868 Talal, smitten with an incurable malady, fell by his own hand and was succeeded by his brother Matab; after a brief reign he was murdered by his nephews, the elder of whom, Bandar, became amir.

No brief description can adequately portray the marvellous variety and magnificence of the flora of the tierras calientes.

Transactions with distant markets are now done almost entirely by cable, and a remarkable development of the telegraphic code has enabled merchants to pack a good deal into a brief message.

Founded upon the book of Deuteronomy, it is brief and unpoetical.

He took the various degrees in an unusually brief time.