keep on

Definitions

1. 1

   To persist or continue.

   • Keep on trucking!
   • Mum, Jimmy keeps on poking me!
   • The young woman kept on down Front Street, Warwick maintaining his distance a few rods behind her.
2. 2

   To persist in talking about a subject, perhaps to the annoyance of the listener.

   • For goodness sake, will you stop keeping on about it!
   • Coppard was unequivocal when speaking to RAIL about this: "I'll keep on telling the government that MML electrification is really important to us. I raised it with Heidi Alexander [Transport Secretary] last Thursday when she was here."
3. 3

   To cause or allow to remain in an existing position.

   • The new boss would like to keep the present secretary on.
   • The charge against Zagallo then is not so much that he started Ronaldo, but that when it should surely have been clear that the player was in no fit state to take part he kept him on.

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