Betekenis van peer In het Nederlands

• 0 to look carefully or with difficulty:

  • When no one answered the door, she peered through the window to see if anyone was there.

  • The driver was peering into the distance trying to read the road sign.

• 1 a person who is the same age or has the same social position or the same abilities as other people in a group:

  • Do you think it's true that teenage girls are less self-confident than their male peers?

  • He wasn't a great scholar, but as a teacher he had few peers (= not as many people had the same ability as him).

• 2 in the UK, a person who has a high social position and any of a range of titles, including baron, earl, and duke, or a life peer:

  • a hereditary peer

  • a Conservative peer

• 3 to look carefully or with difficulty:

  • The judge peered over his glasses at the jury.

• 4 a person of the same age, the same social position, or having the same abilities as other people in a group:

  • Getting help from a peer is easier than asking a teacher.

• 5 a company in the same industry as other companies:

  • Dixons is doing better than its peers.

• 6 a person of a similar age, position, abilities, etc. as others in a group:

  • According to research, high school dropouts earn $260,000 less in a lifetime than their degree-earning peers.