Meaning of morning prayers | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A military briefing session held in the morning.
   slang, uncountable
2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see morning, prayer.
   uncountable

Examples

“When Kennedy was shown the brief at 'morning prayers' he ran his eye down it, tapping the points with his celebrated pencil […]”

“Morning prayers was the traditional 0800 hours briefing of the CDS, the deputy minister, the vice-chief, deputy chief, and other senior generals as to the current military and other events around the world and in Canada.”

“He expected the day's “Morning Prayers,” as these sessions were known at NDHQ, to be routine: a few words from the intelligence staff, brief reports on the status of deployed units and ships, summaries of the last day's activities from deployed units overseas, comments on major exercises, and the status of the one active search-and-rescue operation […]”

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