The phrase "cursory report" is correct and can be used in written English.
It refers to a brief or superficial report that provides a general overview of a topic or issue. This type of report is often not detailed or thorough. Example: The supervisor asked for a cursory report on the company's financial performance to present at the board meeting.
Still, the directors of the Industrial Development Agency are expected to tentatively approve the special financing for the project today without getting more than a cursory report on the hearing.
After Bonds hit two home runs in one game the other week, Japan's biggest-selling sports daily, Nikkan Sports, ran only a cursory report with a small photograph, buried on Page 7. Oh, now manager of the Fukuoka Softbank Hawks, has refused to criticize Bonds and has remarked that steroid use has not always been illegal.
He has a cursory account of Koestler's assignation in the Schneidemühl paper mill with the boss of the underground Apparat N, and of his reports to the mysterious Edgar, delivered under the nom de guerre Ivan Steinberg.
Inevitably, for a work of such scope, there are weaknesses: too many cursory match reports; perhaps too little exploration of the all-important cricketing relationship with India; a rattlebag feel to the closing chapters on finance and women's cricket.
All they have to go on is riding experience, cursory scouting reports from their coaches and an official handout with equine-temperament descriptions so vague that it is not entirely clear whether the athletes are supposed to ride the horses or date them.
Furthermore, in the past it was acceptable to state in the literature that "time pressures…preclude any but the most cursory inspection of reports by the dictating radiologist.
I hope, truly, that VICE and other news media outlets will conduct at least the bare minimum of cursory research when reporting on a public health crisis that affects over 300,000 more Americans every year, who have to bear thoughtless, fallacious and damaging inherently biased news stories.
Notwithstanding that the overwhelming majority of Muslims loathe terrorism, the myth that only Muslims engage in extremism falls flat on its face with a cursory review of any US State Department Report, FBI Report, or Human Rights Watch Report.
The report contains cursory information about the deaths, including the names of the dead children, dates of birth and death, and case status.
A cursory glance at industry reports would show that the market share has hovered around three per cent since the mid-nineteen-eighties.
Third, one need only a cursory understanding of the 9/11 Commission Report to know that a large portion of the report regarding the planning and carrying out of the 9/11 attacks was collected and based upon Khalid Sheikh Mohammed interrogations.
