Keep and Promote

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Keep verb - To mark with an appropriate practice, rite, or ceremony.

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Promote is an antonym for keep in prevent topic.

Nearby Words: keeping, keeper

Promote verb - To move higher in rank or position.

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Keep is an antonym for promote.

character	keep character	promote character
people	keep people	promote people
peace	keep peace	promote peace
company	keep company	promote company
Other words: show, fact, way, characters, world, game.

He's got to make a decision about who to keep or promote, and is watching his subordinates carefully.

Source: Career Building Blunder
Instead they promote him to detective so that they can keep him away from the general public by assigning him to the downtown area to keep an eye on the homeless, the prostitutes and the drug users.

Source: Reassignment Backfire
Too keep the planet from total extinction, the sun still shines on the oceans after about a hundred miles away from land to promote plankton growth and so on.

Source: The Night That Never Ends

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