Definition of "summary" []

• Presenting the substance in a condensed form; concise: a summary review. (adjective)
• Performed speedily and without ceremony: summary justice; a summary rejection. (adjective)
• A presentation of the substance of a body of material in a condensed form or by reducing it to its main points; an abstract. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "In such cases, one usually can avoid the term summary judgment and say that “the judge dismissed the case before trial”"
• "Rather than repeating the story, here's what's happening in summary from the Art Newspaper .."
• "This, in summary, is the Roosevelt Recovery Programme."