setback
IPA: sˈɛtbæk
noun
- An obstacle, delay, disadvantage, blow (an adverse event which retards or prevents progress towards a desired outcome)
- (US) The required distance between a structure and a road.
- (architecture) A step-like recession in a wall.
- An offset to the temperature setting of a thermostat to cover a period when more or less heating is required than usual.
- (possibly archaic) A backset; a countercurrent; an eddy.
- (archaic) A backset; a check; a repulse; a relapse.
set back
IPA: sˈɛtbˈæk
verb
- (transitive) To delay or obstruct.
- (transitive) To remove from or allow distance.
- (transitive) To install or position behind a boundary or surface, or in a recess.
- (transitive, idiomatic) To cost money.
- To reverse, go backwards.
set-back
IPA: sˈɛtbæk
noun
- structure where a wall or building narrows abruptly
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Examples of "setback" in Sentences
- For baby boomers, the setback is especially agonizing.
- There were many setbacks in the development of the town.
- In 1927 the party suffered some setback in the election.
- At the time it occurs, a setback is a potential failure.
- It is a setback to the democratic process in the country.
- That setback led to the betrayal of the Tarnovo nobility.
- At the same time, Judah shared the blame for the setback.
- The biggest setback by the board involved the rape scene.
- The fascist government was surprised by the setback in Hobyo.
- The prosecutor took this as a chance to recoup his earlier setbacks.
- This was the major setback and turning point in the history of Andhradesa.
- Alderson steered clear of using the word "setback" to describe Santana's situation but not by much.
- Sir Alex Ferguson believes the Champions League carrot will inspire a United revival after the title setback against Chelsea.
- Juventus suffered a serious Serie A title setback when rock-bottom visitors Catania clinched a 2-1 win, handing the Turin giants a third straight defeat.
- Juventus suffered a serious Serie A title setback on Sunday when rock-bottom visitors Catania clinched a 2-1 win, handing the Turin giants a third straight defeat.
- ROME (AFP) - Juventus suffered a serious Serie A title setback on Sunday when rock-bottom visitors Catania clinched a 2-1 win, handing the Turin giants a third straight defeat.
- While Bohl describes the shoulder surgery as a "short term setback" in the lead up to next year's London Olympics, he admits Rice needs to work hard before the selection trials in March.
- Another setback is the slow pace of the disclosure of government documentation in civil proceedings brought by six former Guantánamo inmates who are suing the government for its alleged role in their rendition and torture.
Examples of "set-back" in Sentences
- Despite the set-back, prospects for bipartisanship remain, and may be more necessary now than ever before.
- People now wonder if Barack Obama can pivot back to the center like Bill Clinton did after his set-back in '94.
- Dorwin Teague, whose work is featured in the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum in New York, suggested that set-back windows with an overhang would prevent bird deaths.
- Newt and I agreed that the analogy is December 1941: We have experienced an unexpected set-back, but we will re-group and re-focus with increased determination, commitment and positive action.
- Jack Wilshere will undergo a scan this week, which will reveal the severity of the set-back that he has suffered as he fights to recover from the stress fracture to his ankle that has ruined his season.
- As you already know, GTO being such a beautifully rustic old town with its unique hillside structures is definitely a set-back to a time, hopefully will stay with us for many more years to come, even if its just for the sake of nostalgia.
- Whereas before, the tall girls had any number of reasons why they were models -- age, skin diseases, lopsided faces, hideousness, the fact that they were Tahlia -- many of them this time seem to have only height as their primary set-back.
- He understands a harmed condition as one in which there is a ˜set-back to interests;™ and there is a good reason for coercion if the set-back is wrongful, not simply a setback of the order of losing a professional tennis competition or being driven out of business by a rival's superior product.
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