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morning prayers

morning prayers noun: a military briefing session held in the morning.

Noun

morning prayers (uncountable)

  1. (slang) A military briefing session held in the morning.
    • When Kennedy was shown the brief at 'morning prayers' he ran his eye down it, tapping the points with his celebrated pencil […]1998, Society for Army Historical Research (London, England), Journal of the Society for Army Historical Research (page 48)
    • Morning prayers was the traditional 0800 hours briefing of the CDS, the deputy minister, the vice-chief, deputy chief, and other senior generals as to the current military and other events around the world and in Canada.2004, Richard Rohmer, Generally Speaking: The Memoirs of Major-General Richard Rohmer, page 410
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see morning, prayer.

Questions about morning prayers

What does morning prayers mean?
Morning prayers means a military briefing session held in the morning.
What part of speech is morning prayers?
Morning prayers is a noun.

Words near morning prayers in the dictionary

  1. morning line
  2. morning lines
  3. morning people
  4. morning person
  5. morning prayer
  6. morning prayers
  7. morning report
  8. morning reports
  9. morning rite
  10. morning roll
  11. morning rolls

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