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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 ).
Word 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
Despite storming into the lead, Richards ended in third place with a time of one minute and 45.35 seconds, as he was pegged back by Guy and Scott who finished in 1:45.08.
After Liverpool were pegged back, the captain rose highest to meet an 89th-minute corner, score the winner and send both the Reds fans and manager Arne Slot into raptures.
The planned renovation, pegged at more than $4 billion, which includes debt costs, would connect the two halls by adding a segment across Pico Boulevard.
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.
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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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