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Debriefing

Definition: Debriefing

Debriefing

Noun

1. Report of a mission or task.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Specialty Definition: Debriefing

DomainDefinition

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.

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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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Commercial Usage: Debriefing

DomainTitle

Books

  • Critical Incident Debriefing (reference)

  • Debriefing (reference)

  • Debriefing the rose : poems (reference)

  • Gulf War Debriefing Book: An After Action Report (reference)

  • Surviving Popular Psychology: Debriefing the Me Degeneration (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Music

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Debriefing

SubjectTopicQuote

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)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Debriefing

"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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Lexical Verb (-ing form)50%12101,599
Noun (singular)29.17%7133,076
Adjective (general or positive)20.83%5157,705
                    Total100.00%24N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expression: Debriefing

Expression using "debriefing": meteorological debriefing. Additional references.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Debriefing

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
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.

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Modern Translation: Debriefing

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.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Debriefing

Derivations

Words beginning with "debriefing": debriefings. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Debriefing" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: debiefing, Dobrynin. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Debriefing"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "debriefing" (pronounced dubrē"fing)
6-b r ē" f i ngbriefing.
4-ē" f i ngbeefing, leafing.
3-f i ngbluffing, 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.

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Anagrams: Debriefing

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.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Quotations: Non-fiction
5. Usage Frequency
6. Expressions
7. Expressions: Internet
8. Translations: Modern
9. Derivations
10. Rhymes
11. Anagrams
12. Bibliography


  

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