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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
briefing
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
Cabinet Office Briefing Rooms
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
attend
▪ Firms less experienced in international postings should ensure that employees, and where possible their spouses, attend externally run briefings.
▪ He would then have an aircrew meal and attend the final briefing.
▪ Climbers attending the briefing will need to bring with them some form of identification, preferably a passport!
▪ If you are interested in attending one of the briefings or would like further information please telephone the venue directly.
give
▪ General Paul Gorman, a friend, actually gave rival briefings explaining how dim the contras' chances were.
▪ At the start of the Clinton administration, officials even gave private political briefings to entertainers like Barbra Streisand.
▪ Kate planned, argued, listened and gave briefings.
▪ Privately Owen intended to make sure that she was given a very strong briefing beforehand.
▪ Prior to the patrol I had been given a verbal briefing on the night's events.
▪ The troops were given their briefing in the hall.
receive
▪ Also try to receive a thorough briefing from an experienced instructor or pilot who has flown the type in question.
▪ At Commerce, Huang was scheduled to receive 37 intelligence briefings during his 18-month tenure, records show.
▪ Viewers at home receive regular legislative briefings and can hold tele-discussions with their elected representatives in the state capital.
▪ Commerce officials called this an oversight and said Huang received no intelligence briefings during this period.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ At the start of the Clinton administration, officials even gave private political briefings to entertainers like Barbra Streisand.
▪ Bland statements by officials are replaced by impromptu briefings by the prime minister himself.
▪ He sent for the men and began his briefing.
▪ Sir Bernard complains that in the case of the Biffen and Pym briefings, his comments' were dragged out of me.
▪ The rest of the day is a blur of photo shoots, speeches, interviews and endless briefings with his managers.
▪ Thus ministers would have alternative briefing to that provided by civil servants.
▪ When you are issued with ammunition pouches immediately after this briefing, you will draw either red or yellow paint shells.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
briefing

briefing \briefing\ n.

  1. giving detailed instructions, as for a military operation.

  2. a detailed set of instructions before an operation, given to those who are to execute it.

  3. a summary report of an operation or event after it has occurred, by a participant or observer.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
briefing

"fact or situation of giving preliminary instructions," 1910 (but popularized by World War II pre-flight conferences), verbal noun from brief (v.).

Wiktionary
briefing

n. 1 A short and concise summary of a situation. 2 A presentation of information or instruction; the meeting at which it is presented. vb. (present participle of brief English)

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WordNet
briefing

n. detailed instructions, as for a military operation

Usage examples of "briefing".

The briefing officer, a commander Barin did not know, paused for questions.

BRIEFING ROOM - LATER A video image of SEAMEN aboard a telephone-cable ship showing the sheared fiber optic cable to the camera as Barnes, laser pointer in hand, delivers a BRIEFING.

Gowachin bowing over his bedog, begging him to return at once to the briefing sessions which prepared him for survival on Dosadi.

In fact, Britch always had her do his staff briefings for him, since they paid far more attention to her than they did to him.

General Moorman was flipping through the pages of the briefing packet.

Delta Force commander, after a short conversation with Morrell, instructed the room to settle down and then began his briefing.

For the draft authorities, see CIA briefing materials, talking points for DCI meeting with Rice on the draft Afghanistan counterterrorism finding and the draft UBL Memorandum of Notification, Mar.

Whenever the two women are thrown together, at a press conference or a briefing or during the dress rehearsal for the Dy-nawing launch and transfer onto the Mars Shuttle, Mariella flushes with shame and her hatred of Penn Brown tightens a notch.

Suppressed Briefing, but that box of psychopharmaceutical tricks was out of her system for good now.

While van Winkle began briefing their commander, Daana popped the data crystal into a console so the recon and UAV squad leaders could study the maps and life data during the briefing, then joined in with the infantry commander.

As he was briefing them on the latest interceptions, Renne looked out through the rain-smeared glass.

Claudine divided her concentration between the facts of the briefing, with which she felt sufficiently familiar, and how Sanglier conducted it.

We filed out of the briefing room, throwing our paper cups into the black bin liners that the SQMS and his storeman had been putting up everywhere.

Detectives George Stough and Sebron Banks went into a briefing about the burglary that occurred at 516 Covena Avenue.

Surgeon Commander Suchon stuck her head through the open briefing room hatch.