🇮🇹Italian Source WordCode: IT

fare il punto

Pronunciation / Transliteration: fare il punto

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Debrief/ˈdiː.briːf/
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🇮🇹 Example Sentence in Italian:

"Faremo un debriefing con tutto lo staff stasera."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As verb
  1. 1

    To question someone thoroughly about a completed mission, project, or undertaking.

    "The commander will debrief the team immediately after the operation."
As noun
  1. 1

    A meeting or session at which detailed information is given about a completed mission or project.

    "We attended a post-incident debrief to analyze what went wrong during the crisis."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the military term 'debrief', combining the prefix 'de-' (meaning down or off) and 'brief' (from Old French 'brief', Latin 'brevis' meaning short). Originally used in aviation and military contexts during World War II to describe the interrogation of pilots or agents upon their return from a mission to obtain intelligence, it later expanded into general corporate, emergency, and psychological contexts.

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