I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
clothes peg
peg leg
tuning peg
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
adjustable
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The dollar was therefore the key currency under the adjustable peg system.
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What, then, has happened to the dollar and gold, the two key reserve assets under the adjustable peg ?
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Another major problem for the adjustable peg system was the liquidity arrangements discussed in Section 8.2.2.
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Accordingly managed floating was generally adopted when the adjustable peg was abandoned.
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The facilities have survived the adjustable peg system and are still in operation today.
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A major problem arose from the way in which the adjustable peg system was operated.
round
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The round peg in a square forward line.
wooden
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He had a polished wooden peg that went tap-tapping every Tuesday night along jubilee Road.
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He fastened it together with wooden pegs and made the four wheels out of short pieces of a big tree-trunk.
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One of her legs ended in a carved wooden peg .
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This is a lightweight wooden construction and has a hinged lid, secured with a hasp and a small wooden peg .
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A small wooden peg called a spile is knocked into the soft core of the shive.
■ VERB
hang
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It was too cumbersome to hang on a peg in the hall with the others.
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Dorothy had only one other dress, but that happened to be clean and was hanging on a peg beside her bed.
take
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You can moor just about anywhere the bank will take an iron peg or where a mooring ring is available.
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He deserved to be taken down a peg or two.
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No harm in taking Evans down a peg .
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It was gratifying to her to see that woman taken down a peg .
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a square peg in a round hole
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Serena hung her hat on a peg .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Green in the chrome of the Harley, in the beach towel hung on a peg .
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Hang your coat on this peg .
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His voice was nasal, to the extent that it sounded as if there was a clothes peg clipped on to his nose.
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I also put on the real Sperzel locking tuning pegs as opposed to the fake ones that Fender are making now.
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I clipped into the top peg and swung around in tides of feelings below the bulge.
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Knock in rows of pegs just outside the patio boundary.
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Saddles, gleaming immaculately and stirrup irons polished, hung neatly on pegs.
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The Creative Weaver comprises a perforated base board, with sets of pegs for setting up the design on the board.
II. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
currency
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These can rang e from a completely free float to an exchange rate rigidly pegged to another currency or basket of currencies.
rate
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The recommended salary scale for bureaux managers is pegged to local authority rates for professional staff.
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Everything - growth, employment and prosperity - is to be subordinated and sacrificed to pegging the exchange rate of the pound.
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It provides a formal structure within which a commitment to peg exchange rates will be credible.
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And the Sussex County Building Society will peg the interest rate for first-time buyers at 13.65 percent for a year.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Although the formwork was quite heavy, we pegged it down at the four corners as a precaution.
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But the resistance is pegged to stimulate toning and endurance, not strength, Kraemer said.
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But Wasps pegged away and when Ashurst was careless with his feet, Pilgrim kicked the penalty goal.
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Government measures to peg back inflation have deepened the recession.
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The bonus was pegged to a simple productivity scale everyone could understand.
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They resembled washing lines, although instead of clothes, several dozen peculiar wooden and metal contraptions were pegged out.