knock back

1. 1.

   cost a certain amount

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

   Synonymsset backput back

   Broadercost

Questions about knock back

What does knock back mean?

knock back means "cost a certain amount".

What is another word for knock back?

Close synonyms include set back, put back. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is knock back a common word?

knock back is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.