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life peer Meaning of "life peer"

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Definition(s):

  • (n) a British peer whose title lapses at death

Usage(s):

  1. After retiring as archbishop in 1991, he was made a life peer by then Prime Minister John Major.
  2. In 1987 Jenkins was made a life peer and elected Chancellor of Oxford University.
  3. Baron Casey is the first life peer ever to be so elevated from outside the British Isles.
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