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
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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