a difficulty or problem that delays or prevents sth, or makes a situation worse:
The team suffered a major setback when their best player was injured. * The breakdown in talks represents a temporary setback in the peace process.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for setback is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is setback a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, setback is tagged as noun.
Does setback appear elsewhere on Lughet?
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