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Grammar : Noun
Spell : set-bak
Phonetic Transcription : ˈsɛtˌbæk

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Définition of setback

Origin :
  • also set-back, 1670s, "reversal, check to progress," from set (v.) + back (adv.). Sometimes backset was used in the same sense. Meaning "space between a building and a property line" is from 1916. To set (someone) back "cost" is from 1900.
  • noun disappointment
Example sentences :
  • But, as the footbridge was approached, his purpose received a setback.
  • Extract from : « The Law-Breakers » by Ridgwell Cullum
  • Some Manchurian walnuts also got a setback with spring frosts, and some did not.
  • Extract from : « Northern Nut Growers Association Thirty-Fourth Annual Report 1943 » by Various
  • It was not till about four o'clock that they met with their first setback.
  • Extract from : « The Outdoor Girls at Bluff Point » by Laura Lee Hope
  • A 365 setback like this had only a stimulating effect on his spirit.
  • Extract from : « The Watchers of the Plains » by Ridgewell Cullum
  • This is a setback from which only the most experienced advocate can readily recover.
  • Extract from : « The Art of Cross-Examination » by Francis L. Wellman
  • Evidently Jimmy was not at all dismayed by his present setback.
  • Extract from : « Motor Boat Boys Among the Florida Keys » by Louis Arundel
  • The combs were broken which gave the bees a setback from which they did not recover.
  • Extract from : « The Library of Work and Play: Outdoor Work » by Mary Rogers Miller
  • After the setback at Tidborough he was to have spent all his holidays at home.
  • Extract from : « This Freedom » by A. S. M. Hutchinson
  • We're only so grieved, your mother and I, that you should have had such a setback so early.
  • Extract from : « This Freedom » by A. S. M. Hutchinson
  • But he was as undaunted by this setback as he had been by his retirement from the Navy.
  • Extract from : « Famous Flyers » by David Goodger (goodger@python.org)

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