"keep under" meaning in English

See keep under in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Verb

Forms: keeps under [present, singular, third-person], keeping under [participle, present], kept under [participle, past], kept under [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|keep<,,kept> under}} keep under (third-person singular simple present keeps under, present participle keeping under, simple past and past participle kept under)
  1. (transitive) To hold in subjection; hence, to oppress. Tags: transitive

Inflected forms

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          "ref": "1956, Carlile Aylmer Macartney, October Fifteenth: A History of Modern Hungary, 1929–1945, volume 1, page 68:",
          "text": "In many places the local contingents of the army of “three million beggars” were regarded simply as animals to be kept under and exploited […]",
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        "(transitive) To hold in subjection; hence, to oppress."
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