Brief
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The word brief, from the Latin brevis 'short', can refer to:
- Brief (law) a number of formal document types
- Watching Brief a method in British archaeology of preserving archaeological remains by record in the face of development threat.
- a shortening of Briefing, as in President's Daily Brief (USA)
A number of individual documents gave their name to famous, real or ficticious affairs, such as:
Brief is also the Cognate Dutch and German generic word for a letter
The plural Briefs is also a type of underwear
- The Briefs is a Seattle band
- Götz Briefs was a Catholic social theorist, social ethicist, social philospher and political economist
[edit] See also
- Brief intervention is a technique to help reduce alcohol misuse.
- Brief therapy is an umbrella term for a variety of approaches to psychotherapy.
- Briefing note
