keep under

verb

keep under

verb

1

To hold in subjection; hence, to oppress.

In many places the local contingents of the army of “three million beggars” were regarded simply as animals to be kept under and exploited […]1956, Carlile Aylmer Macartney, October Fifteenth: A History of Modern Hungary, 1929–1945, volume 1, page 68:

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