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Definition: Debriefing |
DebriefingNoun1. Report of a mission or task. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Definition |
Public Administration | Detailed report given by a person or a group on return from a mission, and reception by the same group of final or further instructions concerning continuing phases or the eventual termination of that mission. Source: European Union. (references) |
| Report after mission or event(pilot, astronaut). Source: European Union. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: Debriefing |
| English words defined with "debriefing": debrief. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "debriefing": inflight report. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Debriefing" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. Portuguese (debriefing). |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Economic History | Egypt | Areas of concern by DoD include: Inability to locate publication notices on upcoming procurements; difficulty in obtaining solicitations in a timely manner; inadequate response time for offers; issues associated with application of customs duties; buy-national practices that favor other than U.S. industry; imposition of offset requirements; inability to obtain debriefing information; inability to protest source selection decisions, and protection of proprietary information as well as any other discriminatory practice that needs to be addressed. (references) |
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| "Debriefing" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 50.00% of the time. "Debriefing" is used about 24 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 50% | 12 | 101,599 |
| Noun (singular) | 29.17% | 7 | 133,076 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 20.83% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Total | 100.00% | 24 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "debriefing": meteorological debriefing. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
debriefing | 31 |
critical incident stress debriefing | 19 |
critical debriefing incident | 14 |
debriefing psychological | 2 |
debriefing engine excite meta search | 2 |
critical debriefing incident stress training | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "debriefing"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Arabic | حث (actuate, admonish, dub, encourage, encouragement, goad, gun, hurry, impel, incitation, incite, induce, induce to speak, inducement, interest, motivate, motivation, motive, persuade, precipitate, press, prod, prompt, prompting, propel, provocation, provoke, push on, recommend, rouse, solicit, solicitation, spur, stimulate, stimulation, stir, tempt), إستخلاص المعلومات, بيان معلومات. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | инструктиране на отговорно лице. (various references) | |
Chinese | 质问 (debrief, heckle, heckling). (various references) | |
Danish | debriefing, afsluttende rapport. (various references) | |
Dutch | debriefing, eindrapport. (various references) | |
Finnish | debriefing, jälkipuinti. (various references) | |
French | debriefing, débriffage, témoignage (deposition), rapport oral, rapport de fin de mission, résumé verbal, expose verbal apres mission, exposé verbal après mission, critique, compte rendu. (various references) | |
German | Einsatzabschlußbesprechung. (various references) | |
Greek | ενημέρωση (briefing, information, updating). (various references) | |
Hebrew | תחקיר (research), תחקור. (various references) | |
Hungarian | repülés utáni tájékoztatás, kikérdezés (interrogation, query, questioning). (various references) | |
Italian | rapporto di fine missione, l'impartire istruzioni. (various references) | |
Korean | 보 를 ". (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ebriefingday.(various references) | |
Portuguese | debriefing. (various references) | |
Russian | расследование (detection, enquiry, inquiry, inquisition, inquisitorial, investigation, perquisition, probe, scruting), опрос (interrogation, perquisition). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | uputstvo za čuvanje tajne, ispitivanje (assaying, examination, inquiry, interrogation, investigation, probe, questioning, quiz, scanning, scrutiny). (various references) | |
Spanish | resumen verbal, interrogación (exam, inquiry, interrogation, question), informe oral, informe de una delegación. (various references) | |
Swedish | rapportering (coverage), avrapportering. (various references) | |
Turkish | bilgi alma. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "debriefing": debriefings. (additional references) | |
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"Debriefing" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: debiefing, Dobrynin. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "debriefing" (pronounced dubrē"fing) |
| 6 | -b r ē" f i ng | briefing. |
| 4 | -ē" f i ng | beefing, leafing. |
| 3 | -f i ng | bluffing, chafing, choreographing, coffing, coughing, doffing, dwarfing, engulfing, fireproofing, golfing, goofing, huffing, knifing, laughing, morphing, offing, photographing, proofing, puffing, rebuffing, roofing, roughing, ruffing, rustproofing, sniffing, snuffing, spiffing, spoofing, staffing, strafing, stuffing, surfing, waterproofing. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-d-e-e-f-g-i-i-n-r" | |
-1 letter: befringed. | |
-2 letters: befinger, befriend, befringe, beringed, breeding, briefing, fingered. | |
-3 letters: beefing, birding, briefed, debrief, definer, deifier, dingier, dreeing, edifier, energid, feeding, feigned, feigner, fibered, freeing, fringed, inbreed, rebegin, reeding, reefing, refined, reified, reigned. | |
-4 letters: begird, bender, biding, binder, binged, binger, birdie, bridge, brined, defier, define, denier, dieing, dinger, edgier, engird, feeing, feirie, fender, ferine. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-d-e-e-f-g-i-i-n-r" | |
+1 letter: befriending, debriefings. | |
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