Usually means: Acquire or obtain with effort.
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  1. come by: Merriam-Webster
  2. come by: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. come by: Collins English Dictionary
  4. come by: Vocabulary.com
  5. come by (somewhere): Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
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  7. come by: FreeDictionary.org
  8. come by: Mnemonic Dictionary
  9. come by: TheFreeDictionary.com
  10. come by: Dictionary.com
  11. come by: Wiktionary
  12. come by: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. come by: Idioms

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Definitions from Wiktionary (come by)

▸ verb:  (transitive) To obtain; to get, especially by chance or involuntarily.
▸ verb:  (intransitive) To come near to; to pass; to visit.

Similar:
drop by, drop in, come upon, come across, chance upon, find, happen across, happen along, luck into, stumble across, more...

Opposite:
go by, pass by, come past

Types:
inheritance, earn, steal, find, win, invent, find in the street, find in the trash, more...

Phrases:
to come by, to come honestly by, to come off by, Come By Chance, hard to come by, more...

Adjectives:
going, onz, even, be, walk-in, coming, come hither, onward, abroach, onboard, approaching

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Similar:
drop by, drop in, come upon, come across, chance upon, find, happen across, happen along, luck into, stumble across, more...

Opposite:
go by, pass by, come past

Types:
inheritance, earn, steal, find, win, invent, find in the street, find in the trash, more...

Phrases:
to come by, to come honestly by, to come off by, Come By Chance, hard to come by, harder to come by, come by chance oil refinery, some come by post, come by with specific purpose, to come by sea, more...

Adjectives:
going, onz, even, be, walk-in, coming, come hither, onward, abroach, onboard, approaching



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