briefer
- noun
- /ˈbrifər/
- The briefer provided a concise overview of the project during the meeting.
- CIA briefer
- Pentagon briefer
- military briefer
Examples
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Also, the nominee for UN ambassador is S. Powers, the one who knows all the journalists and is a background briefer to them on important national issues, such as those that appear in the NYT.
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Tony Pace was this briefer and he says the opposite.
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"The briefer was specifically asked if the methods were tough enough," said a U.S. official who witnessed the exchange.
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Was McNulty trying to say something in the briefer that he couldn't say verbally?
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At the beginning of the crisis, a CIA briefer had even told Kennedy that it was the "best candidate" for a nuclear storage bunker and was marked for "further surveillance."
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He also has served as a presidential briefer, as chief of the staff that produces the President's Daily Brief, and as an executive assistant to DCI George J. Tenet.
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As a government briefer, he was responsible for summarizing important developments for the press.
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During the seminar, the briefer highlighted key points from the research findings.
Synonyms
A person who gives a short summary of the main points
A person or tool that makes a short version of a longer text
A person who makes a long text shorter while keeping its main ideas
A person who reads documents and writes short summaries
A person who reads long texts and writes short summaries
Antonyms
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Briefer can mean a person who gives a short report; it comes from brief (Latin brevis 'short') plus the ending -er, so a briefer is 'one who gives a short report'.