backgrounding

"I'm going to need a little backgrounding before I start writing."

I had a reference for everyone at that table - face, name, title, plus all of the backgrounding."

All right, he and this little Denys lollipop hadn't done any of their backgrounding on the way out to Phoenix.

Clausal backgrounding and pronominal reference: A functionalist approach to c-command.

Especially with audio streaming apps, there seems little risk in allowing backgrounding, as the user will be aware of the fact that the application is running.

NHK news staff drive hard for objectivity [while] there is more and better backgrounding than U.S. television offers.

From shows recently opened, as well as some that will open tomorrow, it is possible to gain a strong sense of what is going on, and to do some helpful "backgrounding," as they say.

He is notably a major character in many of the stories about the First Age of Tolkien's Middle-earth and he is an essential part of the ancestral backgrounding of the romance between Aragorn and Arwen in The Lord of the Rings.