keeping

• IPA^(key): /ˈkiːpɪŋ/

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• Rhymes: -iːpɪŋ

keeping (countable and uncountable, plural keepings)

1. Conformity or harmony.

   The songs are new but in keeping with tradition.

   The foreground of this painting is not in keeping.

2. Charge or care.
   • 1692–1717, Robert South, Twelve Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions, volumes (please specify |volume=I to VI), London:

     His happiness is in his own keeping.

3. Maintenance; support; provision; feed.

   The cattle have good keeping.

   • 1671, John Milton, “Samson Agonistes, […].”, in Paradise Regain’d. A Poem. In IV Books. To which is Added, Samson Agonistes, London: […] J. M[acock] for John Starkey […], →OCLC, page 75:

     The work of many hands, which earns my keeping

keeping

1. present participle and gerund of keep

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