Definitions for set-back

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Spelling: [set-bak]
IPA: /ˈsɛtˌbæk/

Set-Back is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 3 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 3 points.

You can make 230 anagrams from letters in set-back (-abcekst).

Definitions for set-back

noun

  1. Surveying. the interval by which a chain or tape exceeds the length being measured.
  2. setback (def 4).

Origin of set-back

special use of setback

Examples for set-back

The girls will be in shape to travel by New Years, if there is no set-back.

It was a set-back to Denver, and two years of stagnation followed.

A set-back because the work had been begun with rough tools and lack of material.

From everywhere, except one, had come either news of defeat or set-back.

War is a word that means agony to many and a set-back to all.

That was the first set-back, and the next one was ten times worse.

Business and population showed no set-back in their progress.

If we don't get her out he'll have a set-back, but if they show her to him it'll kill him.

Then there comes the striving to change life and again the set-back.

Don't you think that, an' have a set-back when you find it ain't!

Word Value for set-back
Scrable

3

Words with friends

3

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