"keep house" meaning in All languages combined

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Verb [English]

Audio: En-au-keep house.ogg [Australia] Forms: keeps house [present, singular, third-person], keeping house [participle, present], kept house [participle, past], kept house [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|keep<,,kept> house}} keep house (third-person singular simple present keeps house, present participle keeping house, simple past and past participle kept house)
  1. (idiomatic) To take care of domestic chores; work as a housekeeper. Tags: idiomatic
    Sense id: en-keep_house-en-verb-FBeKX2zc Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 54 46
  2. To seclude oneself in one's house in order to evade the demands of creditors. Related terms: housekeeper, housekeeping
    Sense id: en-keep_house-en-verb-47LFcPAG Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 54 46

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for keep house meaning in All languages combined (1.8kB)

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