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pegged
[ pegd ]
adjective
- expected to do or be something, based on an assumption or stereotype or past behavior (followed by for or an infinitive): This was a team pegged for greatness before they even set foot on the practice field.
The son of a wealthy businessman, he was pegged to follow in his father’s footsteps.
This was a team pegged for greatness before they even set foot on the practice field.
- identified or labeled (followed by as ):
Once you’re pegged as a manipulator, word will spread; count on it.
- estimated, calculated, or generally considered to be of a certain value, size, time, etc. (followed by at ):
Another stimulus package, pegged at $200 million, is now being debated in the Senate.
France's Jewish community was then one of the largest in Europe, pegged at around 500,000.
- attached to a certain variable or standard as a measure of value:
Saudi Arabia's currency is pegged to that of the United States.
- fixed or assigned:
The new smartphone will be out soon, with May 29th pegged as its release date.
The professor pegged to moderate our debate emailed us all a week in advance.
verb
- the simple past tense and past participle of peg ( def ).
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of pegged1
Idioms and Phrases
- have (got) someone or something pegged, to have figured out the true nature of a person or thing:
Apart from that one overreaching comment, I admit you've pretty much got me pegged.
Example Sentences
This is a form of financing pegged to a set of annual environmental and social improvements agreed between a borrower and its banks.
Climate Transparency, the advocacy group, had pegged India's potential income loss across services, manufacturing, agriculture and construction sectors from labour capacity reduction due to extreme heat at $159bn in 2021- or 5.4% of its GDP.
The law was designed to trigger a series of escalating composting and recycling requirements on consumer product packaging — with the polystyrene target pegged first.
The game began to take on shades of Rome a year ago, when Scotland raced into a lead and then got pegged back slowly but surely.
He figured everyone in Omaha had him pegged to follow in the footsteps of his father, who let his own hoop dreams slip away years before.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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