Brief, briefs, or briefing may refer to:

Documents

• Brief (architecture), a type of educational or business document including desires and requirements

• Brief (law), any of a number of formal document types

• Briefing note, or memo, a written message used in a professional setting

• Creative brief, a document used by creative professionals and agencies to develop creative deliverables

• Design brief, a type of educational or business document including desires and requirements

• Letter (message), a written or typed message from one person or group to another

• Papal brief, a papal letter less formal than a bull, sealed with the pope's signet ring or stamped with the device borne on this ring

Entertainment

• Brief, a fictional character in the Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt anime

• The Brief, an Australian podcast series hosted on Southern Cross Austereo's LiSTNR platform

• Dr. Briefs, a fictional character in the Dragon Ball manga and anime series

• The Briefs, a Seattle band

Other uses

Brief

• Behavior Rating Inventory of Executive Function (BRIEF), a behavioral assessment for children and adolescents

• Brief (garden), a garden in Sri Lanka designed by landscape architect Bevis Bawa

• Brief (text editor), a popular text editor for the MS-DOS operating system

Briefs

• Briefs, a type of underwear and swimwear

• Ulrich Briefs (1939–2005), German politician

Briefing

• The Briefing, evangelical Christian magazine

• The Briefing: Politics, the Press, and the President, a 2018 memoir by Trump Administration press secretary Sean Spicer

See also

• Brief intervention, a technique used to address alcohol abuse

• Brief therapy, an umbrella term for psychotherapy approaches

• Watching brief, an archaeological recording method

• Debriefing