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Meaning peg meaning

What does peg mean?
Definitions in simple English

peg Noun

— A peg is a short pin or bolt that is used for hanging things.

peg Verb

— If you peg something, you fasten it using a peg.

peg

— noun a wooden pin pushed or driven into a surface — noun regulator that can be turned to regulate the pitch of the strings of a stringed instrument — noun (= leg) a prosthesis that replaces a missing leg — noun a holder attached to the gunwale of a boat that holds the oar in place and acts as a fulcrum for rowing — noun small markers inserted into a surface to mark scores or define locations etc — verb stabilize (the price of a commodity or an exchange rate) by legislation or market operations The weak currency was pegged to the US Dollar — verb fasten or secure with a wooden pin peg a tent — verb pierce with a wooden pin or knock or thrust a wooden pin into — noun (= stick) informal terms for the leg fever left him weak on his sticks — verb (= nail down, nail) succeed in obtaining a position He nailed down a spot at Harvard

Synonyms peg synonyms

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peg English » English

pin stake nail stick wedge key dowel tent-peg tack pole leg hook fasten wooden leg snorter snifter rack picket pegleg peg down nog nip fix dram clothespin wooden plug wooden pin tholepin thole spile spike rowlock rivet post pivotal point pile oarlock nail down freeze cork coat rack clothes hanger catch woodnog wooden wedge wooden peg wooden key wood peg wood nail wood key

Peg English » English

Peggy Meg Maggie Margie Mag Madge Marge Daisy

Topics peg topics

What do people use peg to talk about?
Work and occupation Tool

Fastening tool
Physical actions Move something Carry

Throw
Person Healthy Injure

Amputate
Social behavior Social activity Entertainment, recreation

Game
Physical actions Move something Move something in a direction

Lower something

Conjugation peg conjugation

How do you conjugate peg?

peg · verb

Examples peg examples

How do I use peg in a sentence?

Simple sentences

The pirate has a peg leg.
The wooden pieces are fastened with a peg.

Movie subtitles

I learned it with a clothes peg.
As soon as the old peg out, isn't it so?!
Now you peg me?
Never get through old Peg Leg Hood.
Have a peg, what?
I'll get it, Peg.
Whatever you say, Peg.
Have you seen Peg?
There'll never be anybody else for Peg.
Peg takes good care of him.
Look, do you want me to talk to Peg?
I'm different now, Peg.
Look, Peg.
Ah, what's the matter, Peg?
Listen, Pee Wee, why don't you stay here. and play mumblety-peg with your new knife?
They'll never get into Atlanta. Never get through old Peg Leg Hood.
Peg leg.
I want to be able to peg them.
If I can't peg them I don't like them.
Maybe it'll take him down a peg.
He's a good kid. Peg takes good care of him.
I've changed, you know. I'm different now, Peg.
How old are you, Peg?
Peters, help yourself to a peg.
They'll most likely take you down a peg.
You just took him down a peg 'cause you needed him.
Oh, Peg, I don't know.
Excuse me, Peg. - Boompa?
Hey, Peg!
Hey, Peg, Katey!
Not so loud, Rog, please! But look at her, Peg!
Oh, Peg.
Peg, you were saying Tom will have to get used to things too.
Peg, Tom's not a kid.

News and current affairs

As a result of the currency peg, Argentina's interest rates were largely determined in the US.
The peg did lower inflation; but it did not promote sustained growth.
Rather than harping endlessly on China's currency peg, which is only a small part of the problem, the US has asked for help where it counts: on the bottom line.
On the contrary, they should view the currency peg as a valuable gift.
It was predictable that China's currency peg would have this effect.
In Eastern Europe where there is a desperate wish to be part of the European Union and the first world, the politics are now easy - Europe has done it, join the crowd, peg the Euro with your currency board.
This approach has been tried before, and it has failed only once, when Argentina had to default on its foreign debt in 2002 and break a decade-long 1:1 peg to the US dollar.
Instead, they shifted the peg for the CFA franc to the euro while keeping the same rules, institutions, and mode of functioning.
Governments that pursue policies - whether US fiscal laxity or China's exchange-rate peg - that create unsustainable imbalances do so for what they regard as important political reasons.
Moreover, Ukraine's recent monetary history has been defined by an exchange-rate peg to the US dollar, not the euro.
On one side are small countries - for example, the Baltic states - which use devices such as currency boards to peg their exchange rates to the euro.
When he abruptly ended the peg in 2001, a severe recession followed, and he was arrested and jailed.
Because the dynamics of Argentine debt were so unstable, a hard-currency exchange-rate peg could not last.
Free access to international capital markets and dollar-denominated bank accounts meant that when the exchange-rate peg finally collided with the deficit-producing logic of Argentine politics, the result could be nothing short of catastrophic.
Others, such as Russia and Argentina, do not literally peg to the dollar but nevertheless try to smooth movements.
The government fell, and one of its fleeting successors announced a cessation of payments to foreign bondholders and an end to the currency peg.
The country was Argentina, which took about 10 years to move from its hard exchange-rate peg to the dollar, introduced in 1991, to its messy default at the turn of 2001-2002.
Europeans are wrong to be angry with China because its currency peg to the US dollar has boosted the euro against most currencies on foreign exchange markets.
The currency peg has also helped make the euro into an important reserve currency, rivaling the dollar.
Europeans should thank the Chinese currency peg for the part it is playing in this.
China's currency peg has also come in handy for Europe in its fight to keep inflation in check, while its monetary policy remains constrained by the sub-prime crisis.
The big downside of the currency peg for Europe is supposed to be exports.
Should Europe give up all the advantages of the currency peg just because it makes European exports more expensive?
Note that it was French President Sarkozy who went to China to protest the currency peg, not German Chancellor Angela Merkel.
The Chinese are not going to change their exchange rate regime, which has strategic as well as economic motivations, just because the Europeans are unhappy with the currency peg.
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