Synonym: defer, hold over, knock back, postpone, prorogue, put back, put off, put over, remit, shelve, table. Similar words: cut back, basketball, back, back on, back of, back up, pay back, hold back. Meaning: v. 1. hold back to a later time 2. slow down the progress of; hinder 3. cost a certain amount set-back. n. structure where a wall or building narrows abruptly.
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1, The meeting was set back.
2, She seemed better until her set back.
3, Our house is set back from the road.
4, The house is set back from the road.
5, Financial problems have set back our building programme.
6, All their efforts at reform have been set back.
7, Environmental experts said the move would set back further research.
8, A war would inevitably set back the process of reform.
9, Work on the new theatre has been set back three months.
10, The bad weather set back the building programme by several weeks.
11, This result has set back their chances of winning the competition.
12, It could also set back his plans for Middle East peace.
13, It has since set back the timetable for the expressway, proposed for just south of Miramar Road.
14, Billy's cottage was set back off the road, behind a neat little hedge.
15, He switched the set back on, changing the channel to a news programme.
16, These tall, uniform boxes are set back from the street, isolated by windswept plazas.
17, Does it set back the filter bacteria, denied of the first stage of the nitrogen equation?
18, Set back from the road on quite a steep rise was a new ranch-style house.
19, Set back from the road the hotel is reached through picturesque roads of characteristic pastel colour buildings.
20, The studios are set back from the road and are shaded by the olive trees from which they derive their name.
21, The problems arising in production set back his plan.
22, The bad weather will set back our building plans.
23, This ambition has been seriously set back by China's poisoned milk scandal.
24, The opening of the new swimming pool has been set back by a few weeks.
25, There will be a risk of public protest that could set back reforms.
26, The four separate units which make up the Loutrouvia apartments are set back from the main road in pleasant surroundings.
27, Townsend said it was too early to say how much the fire has set back reconstruction of the site.
28, The Challenger disaster cost the lives of seven astronauts,(http://sentencedict.com/set back.html) and set back the nation's space program for years.
29, Next to the hotel is an old colonial mansion, set back on a rise above the rubbish-strewn beach.
30, Victorine tells me of a party in a house set back behind a wall.
More similar words: cut back, basketball, back, back on, back of, back up, pay back, hold back, back away, call back, backyard, go back to, draw back, give back, go back on, look back, keep back, feedback, fall back on, bring back, double back, back and forth, background, date back to, quarterback, get by, set, asset, set out, set up.