What could result in the following jquery-3.2.1.min.js error?

What could result in the following jquery-3.2.1.min.js error?

jquery-3.2.1.min.js?_=1501353680880:2 Uncaught TypeError: $(...).on is not a function at HTMLDocument.<anonymous> (<anonymous>:3:25) at j (jquery-3.2.1.min.js?_=1501353680880:2) at k (jquery-3.2.1.min.js?_=1501353680880:2)

Switch to jquery-1.8.0.min.js resulted in the same.