setback

1. An obstacle, delay, disadvantage, or blow (an adverse event which slows down, or prevents progress towards a desired outcome).

   After some initial setbacks, the expedition went safely on its way.

2. (broadly)Any adverse event, defeat, or impediment of progress.

   Rückschlag, Hindernis

   препя́тствиеprepjátstvije, заде́ржкаzadéržka

3. (US)The required distance between a structure and a road.

4. A step-like recession in a wall.

   Setbacks were initially used for structural reasons, but now are often mandated by land use codes.

5. An offset to the temperature setting of a thermostat to cover a period when more or less heating is required than usual.

6. (archaic, possibly)A backset; a countercurrent; an eddy.

7. (archaic)A backset; a check; a repulse; a relapse.

1. I don't think this is a setback.

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2. I don't think that this is a setback.

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3. I don't see any more setbacks.

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4. That was a setback.

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5. It was a setback.

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