briefed

adj

1. (not-comparable)Wearing briefs

   “The grace notes of garters flowing around laced bikini briefed hips.”

   “your whirling skirt flying higher above your burnished thighs, your spinning white cotton breifed hips”

   “Jim Palmer is America's first protometrosexual briefed beef.”

2. (not-comparable)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;”

   “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.”

   “"Being able to add columns and rows [in a table] by pushing an icon button on-screen was very impressive," a briefed source said.”

   “We're up and briefed and we've been monitoring your festivities with Blade Flight, but you boys were having so much fun we didn't want to interrupt.”

3. (not-comparable)As specified in a briefing.

   “All sorties made good their briefed takeoff time.”

   “The continuing eighteen aircraft maintained their briefed course until reaching the Initial Point of the bomb run.”

   “Architecture can be considered as art allied to function: it fulfils a briefed purpose as well as being delightful.”

   “The christening party then moved on to Ridgewell's control tower, where they watched the 381st's B-17s take-off on a briefed mission to Merseburg, Germany.”

4. (not-comparable)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?”

   “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.”

   “In compliance with your suggestions of letter, 27th ultimo, please fine inclosed a briefed yet explicit plan for the reformation of our salmon business.”

5. (not-comparable)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.”

   “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 class use, constituted "fair use" within the meaning of the Copyright Act.”

   “We will wait for a properly briefed appeal to determine this important issue .”

   “Third, if an argument is in both the briefs (litigant, amicus, or litigant and amicus) and in the oral argument transcripts, I code this as a briefed and orally argued issue .”

6. (not-comparable)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 to become a briefed barrister.”

   “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 work of literature.”

   “No one can accuse the Unionist Party of seeking to make indecent capital out of the folly, the misfortunes and the scandals which have become the chief stock-in-trade of latter-day Radicalism since the great historic Party fell under the auspices of barristers— briefed and briefless.”

verb

1. (form-of, participle, past)simple past and past participle of brief