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  • verb Present participle of unpeg.

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Examples

  • 'unpegging' themselves from the faltering dollar, which could leave some buyers at risk.

    Overseas Property News 2009

  • Beijing has let the yuan rise 4.4% against the dollar since unpegging the local currency from the U.S. dollar in July.

    Asian Central Banks Aim to Weaken Currencies Jieun Shin 2011

  • I guess the prospect of the Saudis unpegging their currency is a bit too scary for the folks at the Globe.

    Trying to catch up! Canadian silver bug/Green Assassin Brigade 2008

  • I would say that you are right to point out that opening the capital account is as important as unpegging the currency in allowing the markets to really find a suitable equilibrium.

    Pearlstein: Steering U.S.-China economic relations toward a new normal 2010

  • And I saw that Vietnam is thinking about unpegging from the dollar.

    CNN Transcript Mar 20, 2008 2008

  • For them, a maxi-revaluation of the Chinese renminbi against the dollar, and an unpegging of other currencies linked to the dollar, would be the ultimate prize.

    A Rescue Plan for the Dollar 2007

  • Steady inflation and price stability are incompatible, and this is the crux of the FOMC's dilemma, with roots in the collapsed Bretton Woods agreement, in Nixon's unpegging of the dollar gold standard, and in half a century of delusive Keynesian manipulations.

    The FOMC's Only Task Should Be Price Stability 2007

  • For them, a maxi-revaluation of the Chinese renminbi against the dollar, and an unpegging of other currencies linked to the dollar, would be the ultimate prize.

    A Rescue Plan for the Dollar 2007

  • For them, a maxi-revaluation of the Chinese renminbi against the dollar, and an unpegging of other currencies linked to the dollar, would be the ultimate prize.

    A Rescue Plan for the Dollar Ronald McKinnon 2007

  • Forbes.com Editor Paul Maidment says unpegging the yuan against the greenback will devastate China's poorest regions.

    UAW Hears Delphi's New Offer 2006

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