Usually means: Maintain and manage a household.
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  1. keep house: Merriam-Webster
  2. keep house: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. keep house: Wiktionary
  4. keep house: Dictionary.com
  5. Keep House: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  6. keep house: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. keep house: Legal dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. keep house: Idioms

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Keep house: Dictionary of Military Architecture

Definitions from Wiktionary (keep house)

verb:  (idiomatic) To take care of domestic chores; work as a housekeeper.
verb:  To seclude oneself in one's house in order to evade the demands of creditors.

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