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Originally Posted by sufue
Well, actually, I may have been wrong about it being the Brits. It actually appears to just be the way the Economist refers to itself, independent of its being a British publication: https://www.economist.com/the-econom...lf-a-newspaper
My bad...
Regarding the "briefs" - all I can say is, again, that's what the Economist itself referred to them as. I would sort of assume (although I just had to take a "my bad" for assuming  ) that this might be short for "briefing"? Or maybe just refers to the fact that they are not very many pages - i.e. brief? |
It's a not uncommon noun from the verb "to brief", which means to bring someone up-to-date with information about something.