setback
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noun
1.
a check to progress; a reverse or defeat: The new law was a setback.
2.
3.
an act or instance of setting back: A nightly setback of your home thermostats can save a great deal of fuel.
4.
Also, set-back. a downward temperature adjustment of a thermostat, especially performed automatically, as by a timer.
Origin:
1665–75; noun use of verb phrase set back
1665–75; noun use of verb phrase set back
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Setback
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Example sentences
The decision is a setback in environmentalists' campaign to link endangered species protection and climate policy.
Madame did not experience the rebuke as an extraordinary setback.
The task of the revolutionary propagandist, at a temporary setback, is to show that his zeal is undiminished.
Science suffers a setback and leads to a breakthrough.
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