backgrounding
verb
Pronunciation: /ˈbækˌɡraʊndɪŋ/
Definition
Providing essential context or historical information about a person, event, or subject to prepare someone for a deeper discussion.
Examples
The briefing paper was useful for backgrounding the team on the project's previous failures.
She spent the morning backgrounding the interns on the company's long-standing corporate policies.
Effective backgrounding helps stakeholders understand why certain decisions were made years ago.
How to Use backgrounding
- background someone on (collocation)
- to provide someone with necessary context about a topic — "He backgrounded the committee on the history of the dispute."
- be backgrounded by (collocation)
- to receive context from a specific source — "The journalists were backgrounded by an anonymous official."
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