0 past simple and past participle of brief
1 to give someone detailed instructions or information:
All interviewers were fully briefed on the questionnaire and interviewing technique.
The contributors have been organized into these groups and each of them has been briefed to cover the entire century 1840 + 1950.
The book is carefully produced, the captions fully reproduced and the commentators well briefed.
Here, the experimenter engaged the child in play with toys and briefed parents on the experimental procedures.
The key details are the captains among the ranks who must be identified and briefed early - before the troops go into battle.
This was based on real or fictional court cases in which witnesses were briefed on their character, life and history and part in the story.
All interviewers were briefed on the questionnaire by the author, who was responsible for the project, with the assistance of a linguist.
They were briefed with the scope of the domain ontology and application ontology prior to query generation.
