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Discover LudwigThe phrase "keep a check" is grammatically correct and is used in written English.
It means to monitor or observe something closely in order to keep control. For example: I always keep a check on my spending to make sure I don't overspend.
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Pressure groups can keep a check on corruption.
Originally this let the state keep a check on seditious correspondence.
People should monitor what they're exposing themselves to, and keep a check on their desensitisation levels.
As such, they are demanding public hearings on the map-drawing process to try to keep a check on it.
They called for the Charity Commission to do more to keep a check on the sector as well as acting as guarantor of the regulation of fundraising.
Every three months his blood is tested to keep a check on his immune system and viral load - the measure of infectivity.
The collapse, whose effects reverberated for more than a decade afterwards, helped spur reform of UK corporate governance to keep a check on company management.
All of us have known big shots who keep a check on their real feelings and dark tendencies until they get the top job.
The huge price differences appear to highlight the failure of the games' organisers to keep a check on the budget, which has ballooned from £260m to £1.4bn.
Regarding the EU's regulatory impact, it is of course important to keep a check on bureaucrats luxuriating in the power of unelected office.
We need a database of governors and we need to be able to keep a check of the suitability of governors".
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