Should Setback Be Hyphenated?

Some need hyphens when they are used as nouns. ... Nouns where the second part is four or more letters are one word: takeover, clampdown, giveaway, setback, lookahead, runaround. Rare exceptions are where two vowels need to be separated by a hyphen, as in go-ahead, though this isn't always necessary.

Is Setback one word or two?

a check to progress; a reverse or defeat: The new law was a setback.

How do you use setback in a sentence?

Setback sentence example
  1. It's a process, and sometimes you will have a setback . ...
  2. David Palmer has had a very serious setback to his career. ...
  3. If you're not familiar with Axion, it may be because the brand suffered a setback after its glory days in the 1990s.
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