phrasal verb / idiom · neutral

keep one's word

UK/kiːp wʌnz wɜːd/US/kip wʌnz wɜrd/KEEP·one's·WORD

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do what you promised or promised to do

Examples

A successful leader should keep one's word to build trust.

He kept his word and refunded the money.

If a company does not keep its word, customers lose trust.

Band 8 sentence

In international negotiations, diplomats must keep their word to maintain credibility.

Collocations

  • keep one's word
  • fail to keep one's word
  • honour one's word

Word family

keep verbword noun

Common mistakes

keep wordkeep one's word

keep promisekeep a promise / keep one's promise

Say it for a higher band

5keep promise6honour one's promise7+keep one's word

Synonyms

honour a promise

keep a promise

Easily confused

honour one's word

He honoured his word by completing the contract on time.

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