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Definition of Set back
1. Verb. Hold back to a later time. "Let's postpone the exam"
Entails: Reschedule, Call Off, Cancel, Scratch, Scrub
Generic synonyms: Delay
Specialized synonyms: Call, Hold, Suspend, Probate, Reprieve, Respite
Derivative terms: Deferment, Deferral, Postponement, Postponer, Prorogation, Putoff, Shelver
2. Verb. Slow down the progress of; hinder. "His late start set him back"
3. Verb. Cost a certain amount. "My daughter's wedding set me back $20,000"
Definition of Set back
1. Verb. (transitive) To delay or obstruct. ¹
2. Verb. (transitive) To remove from or allow distance. ¹
3. Verb. (transitive idiomatic) To cost money, as ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Set Back
Literary usage of Set back
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Report of Proceedings (1908)
"of the lock, right up to the end of the wall, on tracks which arc set back 2
meters from the line of the chamber wall, and are 2.5 m. above the foot-bridge. ..."
2. A Cycle of Adams Letters, 1861-1865 by Charles Francis Adams, Henry Adams (1920)
"Everything is set back for at least six months and just now, though not at all
discouraged or disheartened, we feel here much as if we had been knocked over ..."
3. Boot Camps for Juvenile Offenders: An Implementation Evaluation of Three by Blair B. Borque (1997)
"... can commit more than one type of infraction and receive more than one sanction.
Table 4.8. Proportion of Participants set back: Year 1 Platoons ..."
4. The Origin of the Late War: Traced from the Beginning of the Constitution to by George Lunt (1866)
"Virginia and other States early for Emancipation by Gradual Process, but set back
by Abolition Movements in the North. IT has often been remarked that ..."
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