come under sth
— phrasal verb with come uk/kʌm/us/kʌm/verb came, come
(EXPERIENCE)
C1 If you come under something, you suddenly experience or suffer it:
Our armies have come under heavy bombardment.
The government is coming under pressure to change the law.
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Experiencing and suffering
- afflict
- affliction
- almost/nearly die of sth idiom
- be a martyr to sth idiom
- be a victim of your own success idiom
- be devoured by sth idiom
- get the short end of the stick idiom
- go through sth
- grip
- hands-on
- hold
- hold on
- ride
- run into sth
- sample
- seat
- sense
- underwent
- ups and downs
- writhe
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(IN A BOOK)
C1 If a piece of information comes under a particular part of a list, book, or collection of things, you can find it in that part:
Swimming pools usually come under "leisure centres" in the phone directory.
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Classifying and creating order
- alphabetize
- arrange
- arrangement
- catalogue
- categorize
- format
- kingdom
- lay sth out
- prioritize
- put sth/sb in a pigeonhole idiom
- range
- reconstruct
- rejig
- scientific
- stream
- topology
- track
- tracking
- triage
- umbrella
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(IN AN ORGANIZATION)
to be controlled or dealt with by an official organization or a particular part of it:
Playground guidelines come under the Department of Health and Safety.
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Controlling and being in charge
- aggrandize
- assume
- assumption
- authoritative
- balance of power
- divide
- dominant
- have sb by the balls idiom
- have sb eating out of your hand idiom
- have sb in the palm of your hand idiom
- have sth in hand idiom
- heel
- high-handed
- hook
- pull
- pull rank idiom
- pull the strings idiom
- putty
- regimentation
- rein
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