Usually means: Fail to meet expectations, goals.
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General (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. come short: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  2. come short: Vocabulary.com
  3. come short: Wiktionary
  4. come short: Dictionary.com
  5. come short: Rhymezone
  6. Come Short: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  7. come short: Free Dictionary
  8. come short: Mnemonic Dictionary
  9. come short: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. come short: Legal dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (come short)

verb:  (+ of) to miss
verb:  (+ of) to be inferior to

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