backgrounding

IPA: bˈækgraʊndɪŋ

The act by which something is backgrounded, in any sense.
An intermediate stage in cattle production, between weaning and placement in a feedlot, during which the calf's weight and immunity are significantly increased by feeding with forage and grains.

Examples of "backgrounding" in Sentences

If I get to the backgrounding phase - I will be ecstatic!
What about that very expository type of backgrounding prologue which is really just about establishing equilibrium?
Then talks about scene-setting and backgrounding, exposition and the negative effect it can have in doing little more than present a barrier between the reader and the actual novel itself.
His advances are quiet but necessary ones: For instance, a backgrounding rather than foregrounding of the ego; an insistence on archetype, atemporality, and minimalist punctuation; and a preference for the non-metaphorized image.
The occasions now are actually informal social visits, and are more useful to the Legation than to the correspondents, since they offer opportunities to discuss and compare interpretations of local events and trends, and to acquire intelligent backgrounding from a Hungarian viewpoint.
The wonders of pedagogy that can be done, when you concentrate together youths of great conditioning, talent, backgrounding, and brains, are practically unlimited; in no country has these wonders been mined as they have been in Britain, which, at least, gave the world the ultimate and unsurpassable manifestation of high-quality education.