• IPA: /ˈkiːpɪŋ/

keeping

1. conformity or harmony.

   The songs are new but in keeping with tradition.

   The foreground of this painting is not in keeping.

2. charge or care.

   • His happiness is in his own keeping.

3. Maintenance; support; provision; feed.

   The cattle have good keeping.

   • 1671, John Milton, “Samson Agonistes, […]”, in Paradise Regain’d. A Poem. In IV Books. To which is Added, Samson Agonistes, London: Printed by J. M[acock] for John Starkey […], OCLC 228732398 ↗, page 75 ↗:

     The work of many hands, which earns my keeping

1. present participle of keep#English|keep