summarise

CEFRB1

/ˈsʌməˌraɪz/

verb

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Could you summarise the relevant points, please?
Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

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Sits at B1 on the CEFR scale

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Before summarising his report, Beeching looks at other factors "influencing the future role of the railways".

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Before summarising his report, Beeching looks at other factors "influencing the future role of the railways".
2023 March 8, Gareth Dennis, “The Reshaping of things to come...”, in RAIL, number 978, page 48
These tasks may be summarised as comprising the maintenance and improvement of railway services and facilities during a transitional period; the reorganising of systems of management and technical practices, so as to secure maximum efficiency and economy from the fusion of four major railway systems (using for these purposes all the resources and traditional skill of the former companies); and the building-up of a sense of common purpose and esprit de corps among a staff of more than 600,000 men and women.
1951 April, D. S. Barrie, “British Railways: A Survey, 1948-1950”, in Railway Magazine, number 600, page 223

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From summ(ary) + -arise.