briefed

Adjective

briefed (not comparable)

1. Wearing briefs
   • The grace notes of garters flowing around laced bikini briefed hips.2002, H. H. Fuller, It's a Wrap, page 56
   • your whirling skirt flying higher above your burnished thighs, your spinning white cotton breifed hips2007, Johnmichael Simon, “Pizza Lady”, in Sonatina, page 60
2. Having been given a briefing, informed.
   • The results showed that (a) briefed eyewitnesses were judged more confident than non-briefed eyewitnesses; (b) there was a small, but statistically significant confidence-accuracy correlation for non-briefed eyewitnesses, but briefed eyewitnesses showed no relationship;1983, Sally M. A. Lloyd-Bostock, Brian R. Clifford, Evaluating Witness Evidence, page 44
   • Everybody tells us that the doctors are very briefed and supported, but the poor rural pharmacist has to do his best while at the same time run dispensary, undertake roles and possibly attend his books at home in the evening.1990, New York Court of Appeals. Records and Briefs, page 3899
3. As specified in a briefing.
   • All sorties made good their briefed takeoff time.2002, Eddie Deerfield, Hell's Angels Newsletter, page 99
   • The continuing eighteen aircraft maintained their briefed course until reaching the Initial Point of the bomb run.2011, Stuart J Wright, An Emotional Gauntlet, page 159
4. summarized; reduced to a brief summary.
   • I wondered—pardon me—if it would be possible as a matter of lapsing time to ask Dr. McCormick and his committee to prepare a briefed statement, item by item, of anticipated savings and the actual savings that we might have for ready reference?1952, United States. Congress. House. Expenditures in the Executive Departments, Hearings, page 238
   • The U.S. Army Command & General Staff School picked it up for its Military Review, and the State Department sent a briefed version to all 375 U.S. diplomatic posts overseas.1965, United States. Congress. House, Hearings - Volume 1, page 155
5. Having had one or more briefs (a memorandum of points of fact or of law for use in conducting a case or an attorney's legal argument in written form) submitted.
   • A most interesting and thoroughly briefed case involving the right of creditors in a life insurance policy is that of Keckley v. Glass Co., 86 Ohio St. 213, 99 N. E. 299.1914, Cases Argued and Determined in the Court of Appeals of the state of Colorado, page 181
   • On November 8, 1996, in a closely watched and heavily briefed appeal, the Sixth Circuit, en banc, reversed an earlier appeals decision that held that a copyshop's preparation of "coursepacks," created by photocopying portions of copyrighted works and combining the excerpts for sale to students for...1994, New Matter, page 37
6. Having cases to work on; actively involved in legal work.
   • Consequently a briefless barrister who is totally without connexion, as it is delicately phrased, which means who has no attorney blood in him, who has not married an attorney's daughter, and who has no rich relations who bring grist to the attorney mill, cannot hope by any change of administration...1849 November, “The Avatar of Attorneyism”, in Fraser's Magazine for Town and Country, volume 40, page 572
   • As an advocate he had no success, for after walking the floor of the Parliament House, as it is called in Edinburgh, along with other briefed and briefless advocates, and securing only one case, which brought him four guineas, he abandoned that practice and settled down seriously to his true life...1899 June 10, H. B. Baildon, “Robert Louis Stevenson: Essayist, Novelist and Poet”, in The Living Age, volume 221, number 2866, page 683