| 词汇 | pegged |
| 释义 | pegged past simple and past participle ofpeg Examples of peggedpegged Salaries and stipends must be pegged to the actual cost of living with automatic raises to compensate for inflation. We pegged ourselves, when giving plots we used a tape measure. The hardships of the early 1990s with the pegged exchange rate were still clearly in people's memory, and nobody wanted to see them again. In order to close gaps between the sheets and the ground, the chains were immediately pegged to the ground with metal pegs. Were the term "salary" used, resident doctors would become eligible for cost-of-living, nonpracticing, and other allowances that are pegged to inflation. He may hold that concepts are pegged to paradigms that are recognizable by the linguistically competent, and that there is mutual knowledge about this recognition. There was a dramatic decline in area in 1996 at most of the sites pegged in 1992. Television, in particular, has been pegged as a culprit. The bark roof would be held down with a framework of logs pegged together. The squares were pinned down horizontally at ground level, with metal pegs and covered by a pegged dome of chicken-wire (mesh width 3 cm) to exclude larger animals. Because most countries found themselves somewhere in between a pegged, but adjustable exchange rate and a managed float, this representation was reasonably accurate until the late 1980s. I have today told health authorities that the amount that they can pay agencies supplying locums will be pegged at 1987–88 levels. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 By 1969 it was felt to be unjust that rents should be pegged to twice the 1939 value. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We very much regret that the uniform business rate has not been pegged at last year's level and is still edging its way up. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 That decision was right—our salaries should be pegged to civil servants' pay levels. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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