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

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