verb
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to remove the peg or pegs from, esp to unfasten
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to allow (prices, wages, etc) to rise and fall freely
Etymology
Origin of unpeg
Example Sentences
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Only matter except the wants of Le Peuple Souverain to engage Premier Blum actively last week was the question whether to unpeg the franc from gold.
From Time Magazine Archive
Spree Under new Premier Etienne Flandin's energetic drive for a freer French economy, the Chamber before adjourning for the holidays last week passed bills empowering the Government to unpeg the price of wheat in France.
From Time Magazine Archive
This accommodating old clerk would quickly unpeg his beaver at the first hint of new occupants.
From Pierre; or The Ambiguities by Herman Melville
Leaving No. 4 Shinnecock Hills unpegged the spring before it was hosting the U.S.
From Golf Digest ● Oct. 15, 2018
It. began to tighten up when Government bonds were unpegged a year ago, and interest rates started rising.
From Time Magazine Archive
One claw is left unpegged, guaranteeing that both partners are pinched repeatedly.
From Time Magazine Archive
In 2005, China unpegged the yuan from the U.S. dollar and allowed it to more accurately reflect its market value.
From Time Magazine Archive
Then I unpegged a fresh nightshirt and shook the stiff out of it and slipped it on.
From "Beyond the Bright Sea" by Lauren Wolk
The sailors were rapidly unpegging the tents and carrying away the instruments from the burning patch to a place of safety lower down the mountain.
From The White Man's Foot by Grant Allen
Just before dinner Domini gave an order to Batouch, and, while they were dining, Androvsky noticed that their people were busy unpegging the two sleeping-tents.
From The Garden of Allah by Robert Smythe Hichens
Then he caught a glimpse of her in the garden, unpegging tea towels from the line across the lawn.
From In a German Pension by Katherine Mansfield
"Where did you and Louis Malcourt go this afternoon?" she asked, unpegging her hair.
From The Firing Line by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers
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