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get in

Phrasal Verb with get
 
 
/get/ verb (present participle getting, past tense got, past participle got, US gotten)

Definition

ENTER to succeed in entering a place, especially a building: They must have got in through the bathroom window.
PERSON ARRIVING to arrive at your home or the place where you work: What time did you get in last night?
VEHICLE ARRIVING If a train or other vehicle gets in at a particular time, that is when it arrives: Our flight's getting in later than expected.
BE CHOSEN to succeed in being chosen or elected for a position in a school or other organization: He wanted to go to Oxford but he didn't get in.
(Definition of get in from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)