Briefly

Definition

brief /bri:f/ adj ( -er, -est ) ၁။ (က) တိုေတာင္းေသာ။ a brief conversation/discussion/meeting/visit/delay ❍ Mozart's life was brief. (ခ) အက်ဥ္း။ အခ်ဳပ္။ အတိုခ်ဳပ္။ a brief account/report/description of the accident ❍ Please be brief (ie say what you want to say quickly). ၂။ (အဝတ္ အထည္) တိုတိုက်ပ္က်ပ္။ a brief skirt. n ၁။ လုပ္ငန္းႏွင့္စပ္လ်ဥ္းေသာ ရွင္းလင္းမွာၾကားခ်က္။ It's not part of my brief to train new employees. ❍ I was given the brief of reorganizing the department. ❍ stick to one's brief (ie only do what one is required to do). ၂။ ( law ) (က) (အမႈသည္က ဥပေဒအက်ဳိးေဆာင္အား အပ္ႏွံသည့္) အမႈ။ Will you accept this brief? (ခ) ဥပေဒ အက်ဳိးေဆာင္ အတြက္ အသင့္ျပင္ဆင္ေပးသည့္ အမႈဆိုင္ရာ အခ်က္အလက္ အခ်ဳပ္။ v ၁။ ~ sb (on sth) လုပ္ငန္းႏွင့္စပ္လ်ဥ္း၍ အေသးစိတ္ ရွင္းလင္းတင္ျပသည္၊ မွာၾကားသည္၊ ၫႊန္ၾကားသည္။ The President was fully briefed before the meeting. ❍ The Air Commodore briefed the bomber crew on their dangerous mission. Compare DEBRIEF ၂။ ( law ) အမႈဆိုင္ရာ အခ်က္အလက္အခ်ဳပ္ကို ေပးအပ္သည္။ The company has briefed a top lawyer to defend it. ❏ briefly adv ၁။ ခဏ။ He paused briefly before continuing. ၂။ အခ်ဳပ္အားျဖင့္။ Briefly, the argument is as follows… ❏ briefing n (က) လုပ္ငန္းႏွင့္စပ္လ်ဥ္း၍ အေသးစိတ္ ရွင္းလင္းေျပာၾကားရန္၊ ၫႊန္ၾကားရန္ က်င္းပသည့္အစည္းအေဝး။ a press/police/management briefing. (ခ) [C, U] ယင္း အစည္းအေဝးမ်ဳိး၌ ေျပာၾကားသည့္ အေသးစိတ္ ရွင္းလင္း ၫႊန္ၾကားခ်က္။ receive (a) thorough/full briefing ❍ a briefing session. ❏ hole no brief for (sb/sth) [ IDM ] မေထာက္ခံ။ သေဘာ မက်။ I hold no brief for those who say that violence can be justified. ❏ in brief [ IDM ] အတိုခ်ဳပ္။ In brief, your work is most unsatisfactory. ❍ Here is the news in brief.

Examples

1. Scotland experienced a brief period of population growth during the early nineties.
2. A brief visit
3. I have a phone call to make. I’ll keep it brief.
4. A brief summary of this article is given here.
5. I don’t want to keep you long
6. so let me be brief.
7. She can be a bit brief but don’t let that put you off.
8. She was wearing the briefest of miniskirts.