Usually means: Shortest in duration or extent.
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We found 12 dictionaries that define the word briefest:

General (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. briefest: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. briefest: Collins English Dictionary
  3. briefest: Vocabulary.com
  4. Briefest, briefest: Wordnik
  5. briefest: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. briefest: Wiktionary
  7. briefest: Dictionary.com
  8. briefest: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. briefest: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. briefest: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. briefest: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. briefest: Idioms

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Definitions from Wiktionary (brief)

adjective:  Of short duration; happening quickly.
adjective:  Concise; taking few words.
adjective:  Occupying a small distance, area or spatial extent; short.
adjective:  (obsolete) Rife; common; prevalent.
noun:  (law) A writ summoning one to answer; an official letter or mandate.
noun:  (law) An answer to any action.
noun:  (law) A memorandum of points of fact or of law for use in conducting a case.
noun:  (by extension, figurative) A position of interest or advocacy.
noun:  (law) An attorney's legal argument in written form for submission to a court.
noun:  (English law) The material relevant to a case, delivered by a solicitor to the barrister who is counsel for the case.
noun:  (English law, slang) A barrister who is counsel for a party in a legal action.
noun:  A short news story or report.
noun:  (usually in the plural) underwear briefs.
noun:  (obsolete) A summary, précis or epitome; an abridgement or abstract.
noun:  (UK, historical) A letter patent, from proper authority, authorizing a collection or charitable contribution of money in churches, for any public or private purpose.
noun:  (slang) A ticket of any type.
verb:  (transitive) To summarize a recent development to some person with decision-making power.
verb:  (transitive, law) To write a legal argument and submit it to a court.
adverb:  (obsolete, poetic) Briefly.
adverb:  (obsolete, poetic) Soon; quickly.
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