Usually means: Maintaining possession or retaining something.
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We found 29 dictionaries that define the word keeping:

General (23 matching dictionaries)
  1. keeping: Merriam-Webster
  2. keeping: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. keeping: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. keeping: Collins English Dictionary
  5. keeping: Vocabulary.com
  6. Keeping, keeping: Wordnik
  7. keeping: Wiktionary
  8. keeping: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. keeping: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. keeping: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Keeping, keeping: Dictionary.com
  12. keeping: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  13. Keeping: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. keeping: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. keeping: Rhymezone
  16. Keeping: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. keeping: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  18. keeping: FreeDictionary.org
  19. keeping: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. keeping: TheFreeDictionary.com
  21. keeping: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  22. keeping: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  23. keeping: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. keeping: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. keeping: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. keeping: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. keeping: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. keeping: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

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Definitions from Wiktionary (keeping)

noun:  Conformity or harmony.
noun:  Charge or care.
noun:  Maintenance; support; provision; feed.

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