It depends on the context. Brief is a relative term, and the fact that it is talking about incarceration does not change that. A career criminal who has served several sentences may refer to a 5 year incarceration as brief, while a person who has never been to jail before may refer to spending a week incarcerated as a long sentence.
This is not a technical legal term that means anything outside of regular usage.
brief introduction about myself
Depending on the context, brief is already a verb. For example "to brief someone" is an action and therefore a verb.
Brief means short in length, or in duration. It can also mean to give people short details about a task.
As far as I know the answer is "NO" the definition of brief is...Short in time, duration, length, or extent.Succinct; concise: a brief account of the incident.Curt; abruptUNDER SHORTS
Brief can be a verb if used in the right context. For example "to brief someone" is an action and therefore a verb.
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An "overview" is A survey or a broad, comprehensive view of something. A summary or a review of something. And the word "brief" means short. Thus a "brief overview" is a short (in length) summary of something.
there was a war.
A brief synopsis would be the highlights of your life, acheivements, successes, etc.
A concise way to refer to the process of reducing the length of a word or phrase is "shortening."
Concise, not wordy, brief.
In length, the opposite of long is short. In time, the opposite of long may be short or brief.