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keep off

verb

  1. to stay or cause to stay at a distance (from)
  2. preposition not to eat or drink or prevent from eating or drinking
  3. preposition to avoid or cause to avoid (a topic)
  4. intr, adverb not to start

    the rain kept off all day

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Carvalho, in preparing for immigration enforcement under the Trump administration, said in January that he was hopeful that agents could be kept off campus entirely.

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By 5 January 2024, Murder on the Dancefloor was back in the top 10 and would spend five weeks at number two, only kept off the top spot by Noah Kahan's Stick Season.

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By the time he arrived at Oaks Christian High after a year at Santa Clarita Christian, Schwesinger was almost impossible to keep off the field.

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Japan’s prosecutors have launched a criminal investigation into whether dozens of LDP lawmakers received proceeds from fundraising events that saw millions of dollars kept off official party records.

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Thibault pays close attention to the date of the tree’s first flowering, and not just because that’s when he needs to cover his Jeep to keep off sticky fallen purple flowers.

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