brief (redirected from briefness)

brief someone about someone or something and brief someone on someone or something

to tell someone a summary with the essential details about someone or something. We need to brief the president about the latest event. I have to brief Michael on the new procedures at work.

hold no brief for someone or something

not to tolerate someone or something; to be opposed to someone or something. I hold no brief for Wally and his friends. Rachel holds no brief for that kind of thing.

See also: hold

in brief

briefly; concisely. The whole story, in brief, is that Bob failed algebra because he did not study. Please tell me in brief why you want this job.

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in brief

described in a clear and short way This, in brief, was the historical background out of which Zen Buddhism emerged.

Related vocabulary: in short