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Verb: hold one's own
  1. Maintain one's position and be in control of a situation
     
  2. Be sufficiently competent in a certain situation

Derived forms: held one's own, holds one's own, holding one's own

Type of: bring home the bacon [informal], come through, come up trumps [Brit, informal], command, control, deliver the goods, succeed, turn up trumps [Brit, informal], win