Come About

Definition: Come About

Come About

Verb

1. Come to pass; "What is happening?"; "The meeting took place off without an incidence"; "Nothing occurred that seemed important".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonyms: Come About

Improvement

Advance; (progress); ascend; increase; fructify, ripen, mature; pick up, come about, rally, take a favorable turn; turn over a new leaf, turn the corner; raise one's head, sow one's wild oats; recover.

Crosswords: Come About

We've come about the muck. (The Young Ones; writing credit: Ben Elton; Rik Mayall)

New eras don't come about because of swords, they're created by the people who wield them. (Rurouni Kenshin; writing credit: Johan Unenge; M�ns Gahrton)

I've Come About the Suicide (1987)

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One of the children of FSA (Farm Security Administration) client Harry Handy. The plot of corn as well as the rest of their garden has come about through FSA aid. Scotland, Maryland. Credit: Library of Congress.

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Business

Amongst older people, this has come about as a result of being marginalized from educational opportunities under the apartheid system. (references)

Due to earlier problems of having different and incompatible networks systems that could not easily "talk" to each other, the ability of VNPT affiliates to act on their own is not likely to come about in the near term. Unless VNPT willingly moves into a position as a hands-off regulator that simply keeps the network running or it chooses to issue one single contract to just one company, the need for foreign equipment dealers to move on two fronts will likely continue. (references)

This will require an enormous upgrade of IT skills within the country, and overseas expertise will be key. Although leading IT programs of Vietnam's universities produce a fairly large number of graduates each year, the volume is inadequate and most multinational employers find that they require extensive targeted post-employment training in order to do world-class work. Special opportunities for foreign participation may come about in the Hoa Lac and Quang Trung software parks being developed as national priorities in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City, respectively. (references)

Economic History

Ukraine

This may come about as a result of a foreign investor's interest in a Ukrainian enterprise (taking possession of stocks and part of its authorized capital). (references)

United Kingdom

The equivalent body of law is based on statute, common law, and "traditional rights." Changes may come about formally through new acts of Parliament, informally through the acceptance of new practices and usage, or by judicial precedents. (references)

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Expression using "come about": To come about. Additional references.

Afrikaans

word (become, get, grow, happen, is), raak (become, get, grow, happen), plaatsvind (happen, occur), geskie (happen, occur), gebeur (happen, occur). (various references)

Albanian

ndodh (become, befall, chance, come off, come to pass, eventuate, exist, fall, fall out, hap, happen, occur, pass, set, transpire). (various references)

Arabic 

‏غير إتجاه (chop, reverse direction, tack about), ‏حدث (befall, calamity, come, come by, come off, disaster, episode, event, fall out, flow, go, happen, happening, incident, juvenile, occasion, occur, pass, phenomenon, place, rise, take place, transpire, work, young, youngish, youngling, youngster). (various references)

Bulgarian 

сменям си посоката, случвам се (befall, chance, come, eventuate, fall, fall out, intervene, occur, pass, rise, take place, transpire), осъществявам се (actualize, be realized, eventuate, materialize), появявам се (appear, arise, blossom, come, come forward, come into view, come on the scene, flicker, issue, manifest, outcrop, rise, show up, start out). (various references)

Czech

stát se (become, come, get, grow, happen, join, occur, pass), přihodit se (befall, happen, intervene, occur). (various references)

Danish

ske (become, grow, happen, occur, spoon), blive (abide, become, get, grow, happen, remain, stay, stay over). (various references)

Dutch

worden (are, arise, be, become, get, grow, happen, to be), voorvallen (happen, occur), voortgang hebben (become, grow, happen), voorkomen (appear, appear to be, appearance, aspect, be found, be located, find oneself, forestall, happen, look, occur, prevent, seem, sight, view), toegaan (be closed, become, close, grow, happen), geschieden (happen, occur), gebeuren (become, event, grow, happen, occasion, occur, occurence, opportunity), aan de hand zýn (happen, occur). (various references)

Esperanto

okazi (happen, occur), fariĝi (become, grow, happen). (various references)

Faeroese

verða hildin (happen, occur), verða (become, get, grow, happen), henda seg (happen, occur), gerast (become, get, grow, happen). (various references)

Finnish

tapahtua (come to pass, happen, occur, take place). (various references)

French

devenir, avoir lieu (come, come off). (various references)

Frisian

foarfalle (happen, occur). (various references)

German

zustandegekommen, passieren (be committed, be done, be rid of, go on, happen, negotiate, negotiation, occur, pass, pass by, strain). (various references)

Greek 

συμβαίνω (bechance, befall, betide, chance, fall out, fortune, go on, go on 1, go on 2, hap, happen, occur, pass off, transpire, turn up). (various references)

Hebrew 

ל�"תרחש (befall, eventuate, hap, happen, occur, take place, transpire). (various references)

Hungarian

történik (befall, came, come, happen, it's all fair and square, occur, take place, to betide, to come, to come to pass, to hap, to supervene, to take place, to transpire), megtörténik (occur, to come about, to come to pass, to fall out, to occur, to take place, to transpire), lesz (become, came, come, get, grow, happen, made, to come, to liberalize, to make, to rise from the ranks, will be), létrejön (come into being, come to be, engender, to come into being, to come into existence, to come off), bekövetkezik (befall, supervene, to come true, to eventuate, to occur, to supervene). (various references)

Icelandic

verða (become, get, grow, happen). (various references)

Italian

succedere (befall, come, follow, follow one another, happen, occur, succeed, to happen), accadere (be, befall, chance, come, ensue, happen, intervene, occur, pass, take place, transpire). (various references)

Malay

terjadi (happen, occur). (various references)

Manx

cheet mygeayrt (gybe). (various references)

Norwegian

bli (be, become, get, grow, happen, stay). (various references)

Papiamen

sosodé (happen, occur), bira (become, get, grow, happen), akontesé (happen, occur). (various references)

Pig Latin

omecay aboutay

Polish

zdarzyć się, wydarzyć się, stawać się. (various references)

Portuguese

suceder (arrive, befall, betide, chance, cut in, ensue, eventuate, get along, happen, intervene, occur, pass off, succeed, transpire), acontecer (become, become of, befall, betide, chance, come, cut in, ensue, eventuate, fare, get, grow, happen, intervene, occur, take place, transpire). (various references)

Romanian

se întîmpla (happen, occur), se întâmpla (be up, become, befall, betide, chance, come, come of, fortune, hap, happen, hit, occur, pass, transpire), deveni (become, come, come of, get, go, go public, grow, happen, pass into, run, wax). (various references)

Russian 

происходить (accrue, arise, be, befall, come, come from, derive, descend, emanate, flow from, hap, happen, intervene, issue, occur, occurred, originate, take place). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

zbiti se (occur), dogoditi se (come to pass, happen, occur), desiti se (eventuate, happen, occur, transpire). (various references)

Spanish

tener lugar (come off, happen, occur, take place, transpire), realizarse (come true, happen, materialize, occur), hacerse (become, form, get, go, go through, grow, grow into, grow out, happen, live, turn about, turn around, wax), acontecer (become, befall, grow, happen, occur, occurances, recource). (various references)

Sranan

tron (become, get, grow, happen), kon (arrive, become, come, end up, get, grow, happen). (various references)

Swedish

inträffa (arrive, fall, happen, occur). (various references)

Tagalog

nagíing (become, get, grow, happen). (various references)

Turkish

olmak (be, be situated, become, befall, come off, come over, eventuate, exist, fare, get, go, go on, grow, hap, happen, hatch, have, hit, mature, occur, take place, turn). (various references)

Ukrainian

траплятися (be, bechance, befall, betide, chance, hap, occur, occur with, offer, take place, tide, turn up, worth), відбуватися (arrive, be in progress, betide, come off, develop, emanate, hap, happen, intervene, occur, proceed, transpire). (various references)

Welsh

darfod (become, end, finish, grow, happen, occur, perish). (various references)

Yucatec

uuchul (happen, occur). (various references)

Zulu

-enzeka (happen, occur). (various references)

consistant, consistens, consistentes, consistere, consisteret, consistite, consistunt, constiterant, evello, occuro, venio. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Misspellings

"Come About" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: come aboute. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: outbeam, outcome.

-3 letters: acetum, comate, combat, coombe, coteau, tombac.

-4 letters: about, acute, beaut, buteo, cameo, comae, combe, combo, comet, comte, coomb, taboo, tubae.

-5 letters: abet, abut, acme, ambo, atom, auto, bate, beam, beat, beau, bema, beta, boat, boom, boot, bota, bout, bute, came, cate, coat, coma, comb, come, coot, cote, cube, cute, mabe, mace.

+4 letters: uncomfortable.

+5 letters: computerphobia, discombobulate.