in this connection

prepositional phrase

In connection with this subject; in this regard.

Meanings

prepositional phrase
  1. datedformalproscribedsometimesIn connection with this subject; in this regard.

    We Americans have not yet thoroughly acquired the habit of regarding the museums as great picture books, and yet such they are, and in this connection I wish to express my gratitude to Dr. J. A. Allen, […] for much valuable assistance and advice in connection with this book.

    1895, Mabel Osgood Wright, “To The Reader”, in Birdcraft: A Field Book of Two Hundred Song, Game, and Water Birds
    1 more example

    Information technology contributes to making society and the individual person's everyday more transparent than earlier. Bulk information concerning the individual is collected at an apparently uncontrollable number of points in society. In this connection there is a continuous need for mapping out the occurrence and the possibility of abuse of the electronic traces consumers leave behind in society.

    1995, “Consumer Research”, in Hans Jeleby, editor, Facts and Views on Nordic Consumer Policy[:] An Anthology, →ISBN, page 169
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