Keep
Keep verb - To mark with an appropriate practice, rite, or ceremony.
Work on
Work on verb - To exert effort in order to do, make, or perform something.
Both terms in one sentence
-
The Virgin Islands were bought from Denmark (mostly to keep Germany from doing that first), and work on the Panama Canal was completed during Wilson's first term.
Source: Useful Notes / Woodrow Wilson -
The fact they keep up the blood screenings even though they know that the guy who came up with it was a changeling and it didn't work on him...
Source: Witch Hunt - Davy assigns him to work on glass optics to keep Faraday from showing him up again, since Faraday is no good at it.
Source: Kicked Upstairs
Cite this Source
Work on and Keep. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 14, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/keep/work_on
Keep & Work on. N.p., 2016. Web. 14 Aug. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/keep/work_on>.
Work on or Keep. 2016. Accessed August 14, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/keep/work_on.
Google Ngram Viewer shows how "keep" and "work on" have occurred on timeline