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to piggyback on that

phrase

B1CEFR level
35/100Rarity: fairly common
TechnicalRegister

A phrase used to add a related point by building on what someone has just said.

To piggyback on that, we're seeing the same trend in the European market.

Similar: to build on that, to add to that

Topic: Workplace communication in Business English

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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