by way of background
B2CEFR level
45/100Rarity: uncommon
TechnicalRegister
A transitional phrase used to provide context before making a main point.
By way of background, this client has been with us since 2018 and accounts for a fifth of the region's revenue.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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