setback.
An obstacle, delay, disadvantage, or blow (an adverse event which slows down, or prevents progress towards a desired outcome).
Meaning & usage
An obstacle, delay, disadvantage, or blow (an adverse event which slows down, or prevents progress towards a desired outcome).
After some initial setbacks, the expedition went safely on its way.
Any adverse event, defeat, or impediment of progress.
The required distance between a structure and a road.
A step-like recession in a wall.
Setbacks were initially used for structural reasons, but now are often mandated by land use codes.
An offset to the temperature setting of a thermostat to cover a period when more or less heating is required than usual.
A backset; a countercurrent; an eddy.
A backset; a check; a repulse; a relapse.
Where this word comes from
Deverbal from set back. Compare drawback.
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