keep it down

"They do cost a lot of money but we try and keep it down to a respectable level for obvious reasons," he said.

"It's not going to be a matter of struggling to get the inflation rate higher. It's going to be working to keep it down."

“I would prefer to keep it down,” CRowe said when asked if she would like a bigger stable.

Eventually, Zandi says, growing doubts would shrink the dollar’s value and keep it down.

But he added that from China’s perspective, U.S.-led efforts to “curb Beijing’s access to crucial technologies and build economic and security guardrails in the relationship may still feel like an effort to keep it down.”