concise

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con‧cise/kənˈsaɪs/ adjective
[date : 1500-1600; Language : Latin; Origin : concisus, from the past participle of concidere 'to cut up', from com- ( ⇨ COM-) + caedere 'to cut']
1. short, with no unnecessary words SYN brief:
　 ▪ Your summary should be as clear and concise as possible.

2. [ONLY BEFORE NOUN]
shorter than the original book on which something is based:
　 ▪ the ‘Concise Dictionary of Spoken Chinese’

—concisely adverb

—conciseness noun [UNCOUNTABLE]

adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
ADVERB
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▪ If definitions are used carefully, they can help the drafter produce a more concise document.
▪ Without question, no one delivered a more concise and well-delivered message than you.
▪ Making more concise notes and separating them from the author's comments and observations would have been beneficial.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Make sure that your answers are as clear and concise as possible.
▪ Saussure expressed his arguments in a concise and logical way.
▪ Sergeant Hanks gave us concise, sensible instructions.
▪ The instruction manual is written in clear, concise English.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A concise way of illustrating it is to consider two questions.
▪ Cooley has such concise summaries for several authors.
▪ Even in so concise a document, ambiguity creeps in: everybody is to be allowed the right to self-defense.
▪ Show them how to be concise when they may have only minutes or even seconds to put over their viewpoint.
▪ These are mostly fairly straight forward with clear and concise instructions for jellies, jams, dumplings and suchlike.