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keep

Architecture the main tower within the walls of a medieval castle or fortress

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Keep

Inner tower of a castle.

keep, donjon

keep

The stronghold of a medieval castle, usually in the form of a massive tower, and a place of residence, esp. in times of siege.

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FEWER customers, falling revenues, the need to sell off assets to keep the wolf from the door.

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Wade, who may yet become Mrs Cleese Number 4, revealed last week she has been helping to keep the wolf from the door by being, well, revealing.

The naked truth of a wife's role

Should he wish to remain an MP, however, he has his pounds 65,738 annual salary, plus the additional pounds 14,582 he earns for his committee work to keep the wolf from the door, until he throws himself on the mercy of the electorate again at the next General Election.

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workers a new skill set: How to keep the wolf from the door.

Jobless families can get help staying afloat

The measures outlined could help to keep the wolf from the door.

Cash: go with the flow

Furthermore, if famine really was looming in this country, the 3.6 million tonnes thrown away each year in England and Wales - 60% of it untouched - would help to keep the wolf from the door for awhile.

Britain is in thrall to rising world food prices; in association with RBS

Many workers have forgone wages at the request of management to keep the wolf from the door as Kwik Save battles for survival.

Deadline day for store staff; KWIK SAVE: 100 workers in West Midlands to hear their fate in next 24 hours

City break, ski trip or a bit of both, Serbia certainly deserves to attract more than enough visitors to keep the wolf from the door. Rob Freeman flew with JAT Airways from Heathrow to Belgrade (Tel: 020 7629 2007 www.yurope.com/jat).

Friendly invasion

Money from rugby and soccer might keep the wolf from the door long enough for GAA to go professional.

Shamatuer GAA has been outed

In order to keep the wolf from the door she took a sales job which ended with her being head-hunted to launch a sales division within a local transport company, and then managing the company itself.

Moving from horses to Mammoth

To keep the wolf from the door while working painstakingly on his exquisite Vulgate, Gutenberg printed hack Catholic indulgences by the thousand.