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Definition: Backgrounder |
BackgrounderNoun1. A press conference or interview in which a government official explains to reporters the background of an action or policy; "the secretary gave us a backgrounder on public health issues". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Definitions |
Publishing & Graphic Arts | Explains a current event in terms of the contributing factors leading to this event. It is longer than the average story in a news cast, but not as long as a documentary. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Synonym by domain: background story (publishing & graphic arts). |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Concealment | Background information, deep background information, deep background; background session, backgrounder; not for attribution |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| "Backgrounder" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Backgrounder" is used about 6 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 6 | 143,867 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
backgrounder | 6 |
backgrounder legal | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "backgrounder"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
French | document d'information (background story), article documentaire (background story). (various references) | |
German | Backgroundinformation (background story). (various references) | |
Italian | articolo di retroscena (background story). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ackgrounderbay.(various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "backgrounder": backgrounders. (additional references) | |
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"Backgrounder" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: backgrounded. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-c-d-e-g-k-n-o-r-r-u" | |
-2 letters: background. | |
-3 letters: cornbread. | |
-4 letters: arboured, brockage, grandeur, grounder, rancored, reground, unbacked, unbarred, unbraced, unbraked, uncorked, ungraced. | |
-5 letters: acrogen, adorner, aground, arbored, bandore, bedrock, begorra, begroan, boarder, bondage, bordure, bounced, bouncer, bounder, bracero, bracken, brander, broaden, broader, brocade, brokage, buncoed, bunkoed, burdock, burgeon, candour, congaed, cordage, corkage, corrade, courage, cranked, cranker, croaked, croaker, crunode, cudbear, decagon, dockage, dogbane, dorneck, drunker, durance, geoduck, gnarred, grander, groaned, groaner, guarder, guerdon, gurnard, knarred, rancour, readorn, reboard, rebound, roebuck, rondeau, rondure, rounder, runback, unbaked, unbrace, unbrake, unbroke, uncaged, uncaked, undergo, unraked, unrobed, urbaner. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-c-d-e-g-k-n-o-r-r-u" | |
+1 letter: backgrounders. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)42 61 63 6B 67 72 6F 75 6E 64 65 72 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000010 01100001 01100011 01101011 01100111 01110010 01101111 01110101 01101110 01100100 01100101 01110010 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)B a c k g r o u n d e r |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0042 0061 0063 006B 0067 0072 006F 0075 006E 0064 0065 0072 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)366769777384818780707184 |
| 1. Definition 2. Usage Frequency 3. Expressions: Internet 4. Translations: Modern | 5. Derivations 6. Anagrams 7. Orthography 8. Bibliography |
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