in keeping with

English

Preposition

in keeping with

1. in accordance with
   • 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter III, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:

     Now all this was very fine, but not at all in keeping with the Celebrity's character as I had come to conceive it. The idea that adulation ever cloyed on him was ludicrous in itself. In fact I thought the whole story fishy, and came very near to saying so.

   • 2023 February 22, Paul Stephen, “TfL reveals first of new B23s for Docklands Light Railway”, in RAIL, number 977, page 12:

     In keeping with the stock they are replacing, the B23s are fully automated.

   • 2023 December 11, Fiona Harvey, Patrick Greenfield, Nina Lakhani, Adam Morton, Damian Carrington, “Cop28 draft climate deal criticised as ‘grossly insufficient’ and ‘incoherent’”, in The Guardian‎^[1], →ISSN:

     The Cop28 presidency released a draft text in the early evening on Monday, which called for “reducing both consumption and production of fossil fuels, in a just, orderly and equitable manner, so as to achieve net zero by, before or around 2050, in keeping with the science”.

Antonyms

• out of keeping with

Translations

in accordance with

• Arabic: تَمَاشِيًا مَعَ (tamāšiyan maʕa), تَبَعًا لِـ (tabaʕan li-)

  Egyptian Arabic: وفقا لـ (wefqn le)

• Bulgarian: в съгласие с (v sǎglasie s)
• French: conformément à (fr)
• German: entsprechend (de), gemäß (de), in Übereinstimmung mit, im Einklang mit
• Greek:

  Ancient: εἰκότως (eikótōs) (+ genitive)

• Hungarian: összhangban
• Polish: zgodnie z
• Serbo-Croatian: у складу са, u skladu sa
• Turkish: -e uygun olarak

Anagrams

• keeping in with