knockback

knockback
[[t]nɒ̱kbæk[/t]]
knockbacks
N-COUNT
A knockback is a problem or a rejection which delays your progress or which reverses some of the progress you have made.

The schedule has suffered a knockback...

I must have made more than 100 phone calls and I didn't get a single knockback.


English dictionary. 2008.

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