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  1. set-back, setoff, offsetverb

    structure where a wall or building narrows abruptly

    Synonyms:
    outset, runner, counterbalance, first, stolon, showtime, setoff, starting time, offshoot, set-back, start, offset printing, get-go, kickoff, outgrowth, commencement, offset, branch, beginning

  2. postpone, prorogue, hold over, put over, table, shelve, set back, defer, remit, put offverb

    hold back to a later time

    "let's postpone the exam"

    Synonyms:
    put back, put over, elude, circumvent, turn off, confuse, sidestep, dishearten, remand, give in, remit, parry, dodge, bow, send back, tabulate, accede, flurry, prorogue, hedge, put off, evade, defer, tabularise, table, tabularize, carry over, postpone, duck, slacken, shelve, hold over, disconcert, knock back, get across, fudge, submit, skirt

  3. set backverb

    slow down the progress of; hinder

    "His late start set him back"

    Synonyms:
    table, shelve, put over, postpone, remit, put off, hold over, knock back, prorogue, put back, defer

  4. set back, knock back, put backverb

    cost a certain amount

    "My daughter's wedding set me back $20,000"

    Synonyms:
    table, shelve, put over, postpone, remit, put off, hold over, knock back, replace, prorogue, put back, defer

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  1. Inia Seruiratu:

    We live in constant fear that a direct hit from intensifying cyclones could wipe out our economy altogether and set back our development by decades.

  2. President Barack Obama:

    The strong consensus is that in order for us to succeed long-term in this fight against (ISIS), we have to develop local security forces that can sustain progress. It is not enough for us to simply send in American troops to temporarily set back organizations like (ISIS), but then as soon as we leave see that void filled again by extremists, if we try to do everything ourselves all across the Middle East, all across North Africa, we'll be playing whack-a-mole and there'll be a whole lot of unintended consequences that ultimately make us less secure.

  3. Sonya Sceats:

    Sri Lankan torture survivors in treatment with us are adamant that they cannot trust a purely domestic process and will take comfort from the High Commissioner's warning that there must not be a replay of past broken promises, any process that fails to win the confidence of survivors, including from the Tamil minority, is doomed to fail and may set back the common cause of reconciliation.

  4. Mike Ehrmann/Getty Images -RRB- Milstein:

    The discrimination and racism these Russian and Belarusian players are facing right now is remarkable, we're being set back 30 years. I have players calling me, parents calling me. They're concerned whether they'll be able to play, whether they'll be safe.

  5. James Clapper:

    There's no question this is going to set back and make more difficult cooperation with the Turks.


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