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BRIEFING
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Dictionary entry overview: What does briefing mean?
• BRIEFING (noun)
The noun BRIEFING has 1 sense:
1. detailed instructions, as for a military operation
Familiarity information: BRIEFING used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
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)
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