fall under

1. Be classified as, as in These scores fall under choral music . [Mid-1400s]

2. Be subject to, as in This precinct falls under the city's jurisdiction . [Second half of 1500s]

Example Sentences

And that means they also fall under the umbrella of programs most likely to get the axe when state and federal budgets are tight.

From The Daily Beast

There are several herbs used as supplements that fall under the term ginseng, though the most common is Panax ginseng.

From The Daily Beast

Many states and localities provide services to families who fall under the poverty line and also in the “near-poor” category.

From The Daily Beast

Priests are citizens of their own states, and they fall under the jurisdiction of their own country.

From The Daily Beast

Some wines that fall under the natural wine umbrella are lambasted for trying to pawn off technically flawed wines.

From The Daily Beast

Oddly enough this assumption—the most warrantable of the lot—was the earliest to fall under disrepute.

From Project Gutenberg

The king of Tyre, who affected to be like to God, shall fall under the like sentence with Lucifer.

From Project Gutenberg

Tokyo might fall under the blight of progress, but Kano would hold to the traditions of his race.

From Project Gutenberg

But of these species, the first must necessarily fall under some one of the heads already enumerated.

From Project Gutenberg

I have no fancy to fall under the displeasure of my royal brother, King Charles, for a new escapade of the same kind.

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