setback

The definition of a setback is an interruption in progress.

(noun)

An example of a setback is someone having a large, unexpected expense while in escrow on a house for which they have to find additional funds.

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See setback in Webster's New World College Dictionary

noun

  1. a reversal, check, or interruption in progress; relapse; upset
  2. an upper part of a wall or building set back to form a steplike section
  3. pitch ()

See setback in American Heritage Dictionary 4

noun
  1. An unanticipated or sudden check in progress; a change from better to worse.
  2. a. A steplike recession in a wall.
    b. Any of a series of such recessions in the rise of a tall building.
  3. An automatically timed setting of a thermostat to a lower temperature, as in the home at night.

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