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setback noun [ ˈsɛtbak ]

• a reversal or check in progress.
• "a serious setback for the peace process"
Similar: problem, difficulty, issue, hitch, complication, upset, disappointment, misfortune, mishap, piece of bad luck, unfortunate development, reversal, reverse, reverse of fortune, blow, body blow, knock, stumbling block, hindrance, impediment, obstruction, delay, hold-up, check, glitch, hiccup, (double) whammy, kick in the teeth, knock-back, one in the eye, foil,
Opposite: breakthrough, step forward,
• a plain, flat offset in a wall.
• the distance by which a building or part of a building is set back from the property line.
• "they had to get permission to overlap the city's setback lines"


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