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How to pronounce “setback”
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Pronunciation guide for setback
- Learning goal
- Practice the English pronunciation of setback with real speech in context.
- Available examples
- 8 YouTube examples
- Real speech example
- How to Turn Setbacks into Success
Think back to your biggest setback.
- Definition summary
- An obstacle, delay, disadvantage, or blow (an adverse event which slows down, or prevents progress towards a desired outcome).
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How to pronounce setback
How to Turn Setbacks into Success
Think back to your biggest setback.
Example Sentences
A Deep Dive Into “setback”
Meaning
- [Noun]
- An obstacle, delay, disadvantage, or blow (an adverse event which slows down, or prevents progress towards a desired outcome).
- (by extension) Any adverse event, defeat, or impediment of progress.
- (US) The required distance between a structure and a road.
- (architecture) A step-like recession in a wall.
- An offset to the temperature setting of a thermostat to cover a period when more or less heating is required than usual.
- (possibly archaic) A backset; a countercurrent; an eddy.[1]
- (archaic) A backset; a check; a repulse; a relapse.[1]
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