Keeping and Working

Keeping

Keeping noun - Responsibility for the safety and well-being of someone or something.

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Working and keeping are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Working" instead an adjective "Keeping".

Nearby Words: keep, keeper

Working adjective - Being in effective operation.

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Keeping and working are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Keeping" instead an adjective "Working".

Nearby Words: work, works, worked, workable, worker

old	old keeping	old working
good	good keeping	good working
better	better keeping	better working
likely	likely keeping	likely working
Other adjectives: big, psychic, new, major, former, giant.

Metaphorically, this is Orwell's declaration that Stalinism was essentially just another form of conservative capitalism, keeping down the working classes (or the other animals).

Source: Literature / Animal Farm
As part of a means of keeping the Wehrmacht in check, Hitler created an extremely convoluted chain-of-command to keep the branches from working in concert, and thus, keep all of them from being a threat to his power.

Source: Useful Notes / Nazis with Gnarly Weapons
Nale and Sabine seem to honestly care about each other, even though she's apparently keeping the secret about working for the Three Fiends from him.

Source: Even Evil Has Loved Ones

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