Peer Group

Definition: Peer Group

Peer Group

Noun

1. Contemporaries of the same status.

Specialty Definitions: Peer Group

Domain	Definitions
Health	Group composed of associates of same species, approximately the same age, and usually of similar rank or social status. (references)
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Specialty Definition: Peer group

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

A peer group is a group of people of approximately the same age, social status, and interests. Some peer groups are socialized by the streets rather than by their families or conventional institutions. They define themselves as a gang. In Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) Architecture, a peer group is a group of functional units in a given layer of a network in which all the functions performed by the functional units extend throughout the system at the same layer.

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Crosswords: Peer Group

Specialty definitions using "peer group": home and school visitor ♦ school adjustment counselor, SOCIAL WORKER, SCHOOL ♦ Uniform Thrift Performance Report ♦ visiting teacher. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Peer Group

Domain	Title
Books	To Be Popular or Smart: The Black Peer Group (reference) Sociometry Then and Now: Building on Six Decades of Measuring Children's Experiences With the Peer Group (New Directions for Child Development, No 8 (reference) (more book examples)
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Non-Fiction Usage: Peer Group

Subject	Topic	Quote
Business		Nevertheless, if one wishes to pursue a vertical analysis, some classification needs to take place which selects a peer group. (references)
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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Peer Group

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day
peer group	55
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Modern Translations: Peer Group

Language		Translations for "peer group"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Danish		gruppe af akademiske eksperter (academic Peer group). (various references)

Dutch		groep academische vakgenoten (academic Peer group). (various references)

French		groupe académique de pairs (academic Peer group). (various references)

German		akademische Peer Gruppe (academic Peer group). (various references)

Greek		ομάδα Ακαδημαϊκών (academic Peer group). (various references)

Italian		gruppo dei pari. (various references)

Pig Latin		eerpay oupgray

Portuguese		grupo "Peer" universitário, "Peer Group" universitário. (various references)

Spanish		grupo paritario. (various references)

Swedish		kamratgrupp. (various references)
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Anagrams: Peer Group

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "e-e-g-o-p-p-r-r-u"
	-2 letters: grouper, prepreg, regroup.
	-3 letters: groper, pourer, proper, pugree, purger, repour.
	-4 letters: erugo, grope, group, puree, purer, purge, repeg, repro, roger, rogue, roper, rouge, rupee, upper, urger.
	-5 letters: eger, ergo, euro, goer, gore, gorp, gree, grue, ogee, ogre, peep, peer, pepo, perp, pope, pore, pour, pree, prep, prog, prop, pure, purr, repo, repp, rope, roue.
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