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Definition: PEGGING |
PEGGINGNoun1. The act or process of fastening with pegs. Personal pronoun & verb & noun1. Of Peg |
Date "PEGGING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1823. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Finance | Stabilising a country's currency through its purchase or sale by the country's central bank. Source: European Union. (references) |
Food & Agriculture | Marking with stakes the lines along which and/or the places where trees are to be set out in a planting area. Source: European Union. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
The term pegging, derived from the verb "to peg" (to hold stable or fixed), has multiple uses.
- As a financial term, pegging refers to when a country fixes the exchange rate between its currency and another country's, or to fix wages at a set rate. This is by far the most common use of the term, per the Google test upon the single word "pegging."
- As in gardening (or similarly), pegging is used to describe affixing something (such as a growing plant, or hanging laundry) to a peg, stake, or line for stability. This is the second most common use of the term.
- As a sexual term, pegging refers to a woman using a strap-on dildo to penetrate a man's anus, and may sometimes be used for female-female strap-on anal sex. Although this use of the term was first coined by the sex columnist Dan Savage (see [1], [1]) in 1991, today it is more widely used than his current attempt to popularize santorum (controversial on Wikipedia) as a sex term.
- In cribbage, pegging is the same as scoring, and refers to the use of pegs to keep score; pegging out is to win the game.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Pegging."
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Amusement | Athletic sports, gymnastics; archery, rifle shooting; tournament, pugilism; (contention); sports; horse racing, the turf; aquatics; skating, sliding; cricket, tennis, lawn tennis; hockey, football, baseball, soccer, ice hockey, basketball; rackets, fives, trap bat and ball, la grace; pall-mall, tipcat, croquet, golf, curling, pallone, polo, water polo; tent pegging; tilting at the ring, quintain; greasy pole; quoits, horseshoes, discus; rounders, lacrosse; tobogganing, water polo; knurr and spell. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: PEGGING |
| Specialty definitions using "PEGGING": Pegging Away. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | Tent Pegging (1899) | |
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Business | Additionally, inflation was tamed by pegging the Peso to the U.S. dollar on a one-to-one conversion rate. The resulting Macroeconomic stability has created an attractive environment for foreign investments. (references) | |
After decades of protectionist policies, Argentina deregulated its economy and liberalized imports in the early 1990s. Among other effects, the pegging of the U.S. dollar to the Argentine Peso had a significant impact on foreign trade. (references) | ||
Since the early 1990’s, Argentina has increased commercial and tourist links with the U.S. the opening of the Argentine economy, together with the pegging of the Peso to the U.S. dollar (known as the Convertibility Plan) have allowed and induced traveling abroad. (references) | ||
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "PEGGING" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 83.78% of the time. "PEGGING" is used about 37 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 83.78% | 31 | 62,296 |
| Noun (singular) | 10.81% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Noun (proper) | 2.7% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 2.7% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 37 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "PEGGING": pegging out ♦ price pegging ♦ turtle pegging. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "PEGGING": level-pegging. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
pegging | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "PEGGING"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Chinese | ' (Peg, spike, stapled, stapling). (various references) | |
Danish | kurspleje, afstikning af planterække (laying out, lining out, pegging out, poling, staking out). (various references) | |
Dutch | uitzetten van plantrijen met jalons (laying out, lining out, pegging out, poling, staking out), interventie (intervention). (various references) | |
Finnish | valuuttakurssin kiinnittäminen. (various references) | |
French | piquetage (pegging out), jalonnement (pegging out), indexation. (various references) | |
German | Kursstützung, annagelnd (nailing on), Abstecken (define, mark out, peg, peg out, stake off, stake out, to define, work out). (various references) | |
Greek | συγκράτηση τιμών (price pegging). (various references) | |
Hebrew | פקיק" (corking, gagging, plugging, stopping). (various references) | |
Hungarian | rögzítettség (fastness, fixedness, immovableness). (various references) | |
Indonesian | pemancangan (marking with a stake, pegging something down). (various references) | |
Italian | picchettare (peg), pegging, tracciamento con picchetti (laying out, lining out, pegging out, poling, staking out). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | eggingpay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | piquetagem (laying out, lining out, pegging out, poling, setting out, staking, staking out). (various references) | |
Spanish | vinculación (entail, entailment, link up, tie up), marcar una plantación (laying out, lining out, pegging out, poling, staking out). (various references) | |
Swedish | utstakning (laying out, lining out, location, pegging out, poling, setting out, siting, stacking, staking, staking out). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "PEGGING": repegging, unpegging. (additional references) | |
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"PEGGING" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: kegging, pegin, piggins, pugging. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "PEGGING" (pronounced pe"ging) |
| 4 | -e" g i ng | begging, legging. |
| 3 | -g i ng | bagging, binging, bogging, bootlegging, bragging, bugging, cataloging, cataloguing, chugging, clogging, debugging, demagoguing, digging, dogging, dragging, drugging, fatiguing, flagging, flogging, gigging, hogging, hugging, intriguing, jitterbugging, jogging, lagging, leapfrogging, logging, lugging, mugging, nagging, plaguing, plugging, reneging, rigging, sagging, sandbagging, shrugging, slogging, slugging, snagging, snugging, tagging, tugging, unflagging, wagging, zigzagging. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-g-g-g-i-n-p" | |
-1 letter: egging. | |
-2 letters: genip. | |
-3 letters: gien, pein, pine, ping. | |
-4 letters: egg, eng, gen, gie, gig, gin, gip, nip, peg, pen, pie, pig, pin. | |
-5 letters: en, in, ne, pe, pi. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-g-g-g-i-n-p" | |
+2 letters: repegging, unpegging. | |
+5 letters: arpeggiating, leapfrogging, pettifogging. | |
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