keep out

Definition

To refrain from entering a place or condition.

Example Sentences

• "After being warned, he kept out."
• "The warning kept him out."
• "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”."