Betekenis van come under sth In het Nederlands

• 0 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.

• 1 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.

• 2 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.

• 3 to experience a bad situation:

  • come under attack/criticism/pressure/threat The decision to terminate the tax cuts in 2010 as a money-saving measure quickly came under attack from Democrats.