0 a short form of a text that gives only the important parts:
You have all been given a précis of the report.
1 to make or give a précis:
2 a short form of a text that gives only the important parts
3 a short piece of a writing that gives only the main facts or ideas about something:
The newspaper printed a subjective précis of the damning report.
4 to express the main facts or ideas about something in a short piece of writing:
Candidates were asked to précis the presentation, adding one or two suggestions of their own.
To précis the author's views: there is not enough aid, and what there is is spent inefficiently.
You can précis much of what he is saying without losing the sense.
