summary: Meaning and Definition of

sum•ma•ry

1. a comprehensive and usually brief abstract, recapitulation, or compendium of previously stated facts or statements.

1. brief and comprehensive; concise.
2. direct and prompt; unceremoniously fast: to treat someone with summary dispatch.
3. (of legal proceedings, jurisdiction, etc.) conducted without, or exempt from, the various steps and delays of a formal trial.