Usually means: Lag in progress or performance.
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  1. fall behind: Merriam-Webster
  2. fall behind: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. fall behind: Collins English Dictionary
  4. fall behind: Vocabulary.com
  5. fall behind: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. fall behind: Wiktionary
  7. fall behind: Dictionary.com
  8. fall behind: Rhymezone
  9. fall behind: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  10. fall behind: FreeDictionary.org
  11. fall behind: Mnemonic Dictionary
  12. fall behind: TheFreeDictionary.com
  13. fall behind: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. fall behind: Encyclopedia

Definitions from Wiktionary (fall behind)

verb:  Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see fall, behind.
verb:  (idiomatic, intransitive) To be late (for a regular event)
verb:  (intransitive) To be progressively below average in performance.
verb:  (transitive and intransitive) to fail to keep up (with)

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