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précis
[ prey-see, prey-see ]
noun
- a concise summary.
Synonyms: abstract, condensation, digest
verb (used with object)
- to make a précis of.
precis
/ ˈpreɪsiː /
noun
- a summary of the essentials of a text; abstract
verb
- tr to make a precis of
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Origin of précis1
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Example Sentences
And earlier that day, the 43-year-old had earned the précis, breaking up a skirmish by the Staten Island Ferry.
There follows a précis of their conversation, to save you the emotional and intellectual distress of actually watching.
Singing School is so lean and mean, any précis calls for a spoiler alert.
Write a précis of each Letter, received or sent, in chronological order.
Apparently he had given her a précis of his life's history amazingly on the lines of a concentrated military despatch.
This catalogue (nearly 600 pages) is a marvellous précis of the works of the human spirit.
The foregoing pages have given it as it were in précis, rather than in any fuller fashion.
The above is a condensed précis of all that was said in the Constitutional Convention on this vital matter.
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