keep out

English

Verb

keep out (third-person singular simple present keeps out, present participle keeping out, simple past and past participle kept out)

1. (intransitive) To refrain from entering a place or condition.

   After being warned, he kept out.

2. (transitive) To restrain someone or something from entering a place or condition.
   • 2013 June 1, “End of the peer show”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8838, page 71:

     Finance is seldom romantic. But the idea of peer-to-peer lending comes close. This is an industry that brings together individual savers and lenders on online platforms. […] Banks and credit-card firms are kept out of the picture. Talk to enough people in the field and someone is bound to mention the “democratisation of finance”.

   The warning kept him out.

Usage notes

Often seen, as imperative, on a sign posted as an attempt to prevent entry or access to a place.

Translations

refrain from entering

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Danish: ingen adgang
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• Finnish: pysyä ulkona, pysytellä ulkona
• French: please add this translation if you can
• Polish: nie zbliżać się

restrain someone or something

• Chinese:

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• Dutch: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: pitää kaukana
• French: please add this translation if you can

See also

• no admittance
• no trespassing
• stay away

Anagrams

• outkeep