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COME IN FOR
Pronunciation (US): | (GB): |
I. (verb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Be subject to or the object of
Example:
The governor came in for a lot of criticism
Classified under:
Verbs of being, having, spatial relations
Hypernyms (to "come in for" is one way to...):
be (have the quality of being; (copula, used with an adjective or a predicate noun))
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something