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currency peg

 
 
noun [C]

Definition

ECONOMICS, FINANCE the act of connecting the value of a country's currency to that of another country: Brazil's real fell sharply in January 1999 after the government abandoned its currency peg.
(Definition of currency peg noun from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)
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