to peg

Examples

• All

• Other countries pegged their currency to the dollar, which could still be redeemed for gold.

  Bitcoin: The End of Money as We Know It (2015)

• Friedman argued that monetary policy cannot peg the rate of unemployment for more than a limited time.

  Academic text (1990)

• Thus it should, in theory, never move from its peg for long.

• They commit now to buy gasoline at a peg future price.

• Roosevelt could pull off his stunt, his insider trade, because the price of gold was pegged at the time he changed the peg.

• To achieve their goals, many Asian countries chose to peg their currencies to the U.S. dollar at artificially low levels.

  Academic text (2011)

• Create a NGDP futures market, and peg the price of NGDP futures contracts at the target level.

  Blog text (12)

• Exchange rates were pegged, thus overstating the value of the CMEA currencies.

  Academic text (1991)

• The rupee was pegged to the pound sterling until 1975, after which it was pegged to a basket of currencies.

  Academic text (1994)

• In order to maintain stability in their economy, the government pegged the national currency to the US dollar.

Antonyms

F

to float

• Specialized

13 7.9

To let a country's money change value freely in markets

Idioms

K

to knock down a peg

• Informal

3 7.6

Make someone feel less proud by criticizing or embarrassing them

S

square peg in a round hole

• Informal

1 6.7

A person who does not fit into a job or group

P

to peg the needle

• Informal

9.4

Reach and stay at the highest level shown on a meter

Phrasal Verbs

P

to peg away

• UK

8.6

To keep working for a long time on something difficult or boring

P

to peg down

• Informal

5.3

To make exact details clear and certain

P

to peg down

• UK

4.4

To fasten something like a tent to the ground with small pins

Compounds

O

off-the-peg

• UK

1 6.0

Clothes made in standard sizes that you can buy

T

tent peg

1 2.6

A pointed piece of wood or metal pushed into the ground to hold a tent

C

clothes peg

• UK

1 1.1

A small wooden or plastic clip that holds wet clothes on a line while they dry

M

mumblety-peg

• Archaic

1 9.9

A game where players throw a pocketknife so it sticks in the ground

M

mumble-the-peg

• Archaic

9.9

A children's game where players throw a small knife to make it stick in the ground

O

off-the-peg suit

• UK

4.1

A suit made in regular sizes that you can buy and wear immediately

P

peg top

• UK

7.6

A wooden toy shaped like a pear with a metal point you spin with a string

How Fixed

anchor

43 4.0

to peg

• Specialized

8 6.6

to fix

331 1.6

to float

• Specialized

13 7.9

Surface Forms

Etymology