keep down
verb
kept down; keeping down; keeps down
1
: to keep in control
keep expenses down
2
: to prevent from growing, advancing, or succeeding
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Permission that is required to hunt private lands isn’t always easy to get — which makes for good turkey shooting by keeping down the number of hunters.
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Dave Duffey, Outdoor Life, 2 Apr. 2025
At the time, most customers wanted at least two competing suppliers for any new family of semiconductor components, to ensure product availability and keep down prices.
—IEEE Spectrum, 22 June 2017
To help keep down costs, Rev Group has created a more standardized vehicle that can be made in less than a year.
—Mike Baker, New York Times, 17 Feb. 2025
Bottom line Amazon put together another impressive quarter of profit growth thanks to revenue growth in high-margin streams like AWS and advertising while keeping down costs in its e-commerce business.
—Jeff Marks, CNBC, 7 Feb. 2025
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Dave Duffey, Outdoor Life, 2 Apr. 2025
At the time, most customers wanted at least two competing suppliers for any new family of semiconductor components, to ensure product availability and keep down prices.
—IEEE Spectrum, 22 June 2017
To help keep down costs, Rev Group has created a more standardized vehicle that can be made in less than a year.
—Mike Baker, New York Times, 17 Feb. 2025
Bottom line Amazon put together another impressive quarter of profit growth thanks to revenue growth in high-margin streams like AWS and advertising while keeping down costs in its e-commerce business.
—Jeff Marks, CNBC, 7 Feb. 2025
See All Example Sentences for keep down
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“Keep down.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/keep%20down. Accessed 11 Apr. 2025.
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