setback
B1CEFR level
25/100Rarity: fairly common
NeutralRegister
General noun
A problem or difficulty that delays or reverses progress.
The recall was a major setback for the newly launched product.
Business noun
The required distance a building must be positioned back from a boundary or street.
Zoning setbacks forced the architects to step the upper storeys away from the pavement.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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