The phrase "a briefing memo" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to a document that provides essential information or updates on a specific topic, often used in professional or organizational contexts.
Example: "The manager distributed a briefing memo to all staff regarding the upcoming changes in company policy."
Alternatives: "an information memo" or "a summary memo."
Nixon, the most anti-social of men, needed a briefing memo just to make it through the pleasantries of a staff birthday party.
Within about 24 hours, the mosque was checked by the Secret Service for security, a briefing memo was prepared for the president and an advance team was dispatched to the Islamic center.
One of the documents Mr. Thompson has presented is a briefing memo prepared for Mr. Patten explaining the payments, which were approved before Mr. Patten became chairman of the trust.
It was late January, and D'Angelo was doing his best to persuade the bureau director to back away from a plan that was sending shock waves through the bureau's corridors, according to a briefing memo prepared for D'Angelo that was described by a person familiar with the meeting.
The party leadership distanced itself from a briefing memo, accidentally sent to journalists, suggesting that it was considering asking those earning more than £50,000 to make a larger contribution.
On the contrary, descriptions of the emails provided in legal briefs suggest they appear to deal with jurisdictional issues, drafting press releases, a briefing memo, and news articles.
Someone needs to draw up a brief memo: Write English.
She sent in a brief memo and got a very brief negative reply.
It did not hold public hearings before voting and distributed a brief memo to its committee just hours before the vote.
Cannon acknowledged that he had raised the issue in a brief memo to Baker as the former Tennessee senator prepared to assume his White House position in late February 1987.
On Friday evening, the agency released a brief memo from its principal deputy general counsel — dated March 30 — that said its ethics office had reviewed Pruitt's lease.
