briefing (n.)

• account
• acquaintance
• admonition
• advice
• advocacy
• airmanship
• announcement
• appointment
• arrangement
• booking
• brief
• bulletin
• caution
• caveat
• communication
• communique
• consultation
• council
• counsel
• data
• datum
• direction
• directory
• dispatch
• employment
• engagement
• enlightenment
• equipment
• evidence
• exhortation
• expostulation
• facts
• familiarization
• fixing
• foundation
• gen
• groundwork
• guidance
• guidebook
• handout
• hortation
• idea
• info
• information
• instruction
• instructions
• intelligence
• knowledge
• light
• makeready
• manufacture
• mention
• message
• mobilization
• monition
• notice
• notification
• opinion
• orders
• parley
• planning
• prearrangement
• preliminary
• prep
• preparation
• prerequisite
• presentation
• processing
• proof
• propaedeutic
• proposal
• provision
• publication
• publicity
• readying
• recommendation
• release
• remonstrance
• report
• reservation
• rundown
• sidelight
• spadework
• statement
• suggestion
• thought
• training
• transmission
• treatment
• trial
• tryout
• warm-up
• warning
• washout
• word