peer : Idioms & Phrases

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House of Peers, The Peers

  • the British House of Lords. See Parliament.
Webster 1913

life peer

  • noun a British peer whose title lapses at death
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peer group

  • noun contemporaries of the same status
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peer of the realm

  • noun a peer who is entitled to sit in the House of Lords
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peer review

  • verb evaluate professionally a colleague's work
    referee.
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Spiritual peers

  • the bishops and archibishops, or lords spiritual, who sit in the House of Lords.
Webster 1913