peg

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Amidst a global commodity bubble collapse, inflation imported through the peg is also declining.

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  1. noun A small cylindrical or tapered pin, as of wood, used to fasten things or plug a hole.
  2. noun A similar pin forming a projection that may be used as a support or boundary marker.
  3. noun Music One of the pins of a stringed instrument that are turned to tighten or slacken the strings so as to regulate their pitch.
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  • •Their Teeth Will Be Of Lions: Hard to peg, a frontman of this six-member Kalamazoo act once described his band as "dark yet dancy." —  battlecreekenquirer.com -
  • This hub gradually rises first into the shape of a blunt peg, and then into a distinctly phallic erection. —  National Review Online
  • That was the year financial markets forced Thailand to abandon its currency peg, and the Thai baht fell from 26 baht per dollar to 56 baht per dollar. —  Dealbreaker
  • - Spectacular Spider-Man (Series 2): 1 peg, almost full —  Action-Figure
  • To maintain the currency peg, the central bank will sell dollars. —  LBO-Lanka Business Online
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hanger ·  hook ·  nail ·  rack ·  shelve ·  bookshelf ·  stake ·  stool ·  rod ·  pole ·  pin ·  plank

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peg:   pegs ·  pegging ·  pegged
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  1. Middle English pegge, from Middle Dutch.

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  1. from Middle English pegge; prob. from Swedish pigg = Danish Pig, a spike a secondary form of Swedish Danish Pik, a pike; ult., and in English perhaps directly, of Celtic origin: cf. Welsh pig, a peak, point, Cornish Pig, a prick, Welshpegor, a pivot, pegwn, a pivot, pin, spindle, pole or axis: see peak, pike.
  2. from peg, n.
 

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