Setback
['setbæk] or ['sɛtbæk]
Definition
(n.) Offset, n., 4.
(n.) A backset; a countercurrent; an eddy.
(n.) A backset; a check; a repulse; a reverse; a relapse.
Checked by Abby
Examples
- This alone involved an incalculable setback to the march of scientific thought. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- What would to-day be regarded by an aeronaut as a slight setback seemed at that moment like a tragic failure. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- But I have had a bad setback. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
Typed by Eugenia