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▸ noun: (by extension) Any adverse event, defeat, or impediment of progress.
▸ noun: (US) The required distance between a structure and a road.
▸ noun: (architecture) A step-like recession in a wall.
▸ noun: An offset to the temperature setting of a thermostat to cover a period when more or less heating is required than usual.
▸ noun: (possibly archaic) A backset; a countercurrent; an eddy.
▸ noun: (archaic) A backset; a check; a repulse; a relapse.
Similar:
reversal,
reverse,
blow,
knockback,
pullback,
drawback,
pushback,
backcast,
retarder,
backstep,
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financial setback,
personal setback,
career setback,
health setback,
academic setback,
emotional setback,
legal setback,
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