setback
- Noun. An obstacle, delay, or disadvantage.
- Noun. (US) The required distance between a structure and a road.
- Noun. (architecture) A step-like recession in a wall.
- Noun. (''possibly archaic'') A backset; a countercurrent; an eddy.
- Noun. A backset; a check; a repulse; a relapse.
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