Usually means: To unexpectedly collapse or descend.
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General (8 matching dictionaries)
  1. fall on: Merriam-Webster
  2. fall on: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. fall on: Collins English Dictionary
  4. fall on: Wiktionary
  5. fall on: Dictionary.com
  6. fall on: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. fall on: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. fall on: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. fall on: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. fall on: Idioms

Definitions from Wiktionary (fall on)

verb:  To experience; to suffer; to fall upon.
verb:  To be assigned to; to acquire a new responsibility, duty or burden.
verb:  (of a holiday or event) To occur on a particular day.
verb:  Of the eyes or gaze: to alight upon.
verb:  (archaic) To attack (someone); to join an attack on (someone), especially a surprise attack.

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