currency peg

currency peg definition - finance
The policy of controlling the value of a currency by linking it to another currency. The U.S. dollar is used as a peg for many currencies.

Webster's New World Finance and Investment Dictionary Copyright © 2003 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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