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SETBACK Definition & Meaning - Merriam-Webster
The meaning of SETBACK is a checking of progress. How to use setback in a sentence.
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SETBACK | English meaning - Cambridge Dictionary
Rather than a mere legislative setback, it marked a successful challenge of the segregationist platform and the establishment of the legal norm of racial equality.
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SETBACK Definition & Meaning | Dictionary.com
SETBACK definition: a check to progress; a reverse or defeat. See examples of setback used in a sentence.
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setback noun - Definition, pictures, pronunciation and usage notes ...
Definition of setback noun in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
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Setback - definition of setback by The Free Dictionary
setback noun hold-up, check, defeat, blow, upset, reverse, disappointment, hitch, misfortune, rebuff, whammy (informal, chiefly U.S.), bummer (slang), bit of trouble He has suffered a serious setback in his political career.
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setback - Wiktionary, the free dictionary
setback (plural setbacks) An obstacle, delay, disadvantage, or blow (an adverse event which slows down, or prevents progress towards a desired outcome). synonyms quotations Synonyms: rebuff, reversal After some initial setbacks, the expedition went safely on its way.
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SET BACK definition and meaning | Collins English Dictionary
6 meanings: 1. to hinder; impede 2. informal to cost (a person) a specified amount setback 3. anything that serves to hinder or.... Click for more definitions.
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Setback Definition & Meaning | YourDictionary
Setback definition: An unanticipated or sudden check in progress; a change from better to worse.
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[informal] Cost a certain amount - knock back [informal], put back [Brit, informal] Derived forms: setbacks, sets back, set back, setting back Type of: be, construction, cost, delay, entrammel [literary], fetter [literary], happening, hinder, impede, natural event, occurrence, occurrent, structure, trammel [literary] Encyclopedia: Setback Set back
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A setback is an event that makes you lose progress or keeps you from gaining ground. If you're knitting a sweater, dropping a bunch of stitches would be a big setback. If warring countries are negotiating a treaty, a sudden resurgence of fighting would be a huge setback for their peace plan.