keep sth down
— Phrasal Verb with keep /kiːp/ verb (kept, kept)Definition
› to control the size or number of something and prevent it from increasing: To have any chance against the competition, we need to keep our prices down.
(Definition of keep sth down from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary
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