keep company
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keep company (third-person singular simple present keeps company, present participle keeping company, simple past and past participle kept company)
- (transitive, intransitive, idiomatic, dated, euphemistic) To court.
- It was rumoured that the lady and the gentleman were keeping company.
- He was keeping company with her.
- (intransitive, idiomatic) To socialize.
- If you care about your reputation you ought to be careful whom you keep company with.
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court — see court
socialise — see socialise