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watching briefs

watching briefs is the plural of watching brief.

Meaning of watching brief

Noun

watching brief (plural watching briefs)

  1. In criminal cases, a brief to represent a client who is not a direct party to the suit, and to serve as an observer.
  2. The monitoring, by an archaeologist employed by a developer, of excavation and other building work in order to identify and record any archaeological finds and features.

Questions about watching briefs

What is watching briefs the plural of?
Watching briefs is the plural of watching brief.

Words near watching briefs in the dictionary

  1. watchie
  2. watchies
  3. watchin'
  4. watching
  5. watching brief
  6. watching briefs
  7. watching grass grow
  8. watching it
  9. watching like a hawk
  10. watching one's ass
  11. watching one's back

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Adapted from Wiktionary: watching briefs (page history and authors); watching brief (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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