Conduct
Conduct verb - To look after and make decisions about.
Usage example: the company's president continues to conduct the everyday affairs of the software firm he founded many years ago
Keep is a synonym for conduct in hold topic. In some cases you can use "Keep" instead a verb "Conduct", when it comes to topics like administer.
Mutual synonyms
How words are described
| human | human conduct | human keep |
| normal | normal conduct | normal keep |
| usual | usual conduct | usual keep |
| proper | proper conduct | proper keep |
| Other adjectives: actual, great, dangerous, wicked, criminal, personal, few. | ||
Common collocations
| number | conduct number | keep number |
Both words in one sentence
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Rules of conduct for mages generally keep them frail and unathletic, but Dunbar's work on a ship didn't conflict with the rules and did give him "a physique that even Caramon might have envied".
Source: Literature / Dragonlance -
In the Robert Harris novel Fatherland, the victorious-in-WWII Nazis conduct a murderous conspiracy to keep the Holocaust a secret.
Source: Government Conspiracy -
One prisoner murders another to keep him silent and Hart must conduct the court martial.
Source: PoW Camp
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