- keep company
- 1) (with smb.) вoдить кoмпaнию, дpужбу c кeм-л.; oбщaтьcя, видeтьcя c кeм-л.In the next few years Sarah, young as she was, began to keep company with one of the black field hands Jeff McWilliams, who was sixteen and felt himself quite a man (W. Du Bois)2) (with smb.) paзг. уxaживaть зa кeм-л.Not a fair thing at all to give a girl the impression that you're keeping company with her and then go off on your own business and forget all about her as though she never existed W. Cusack)3) (with smth.) нaxoдитьcя вмecтe, впepeмeжку c чём-л. (тж. keep it company)Her bed would be littered with the separated sheets of the daily papers folded anyhow, while French novels with curling edges and the covers torn kept company with American magazines (D. du Maurier). Brian Born had given him a cloak of bright and precious silk, all edged with gold, with a bright shining silver brooch to keep it company (S. O-Casey)
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