peer group

1. 1.

   contemporaries of the same status

   Broadercoevals

Questions about peer group

What does peer group mean?

peer group means "contemporaries of the same status".

Is peer group a common word?

peer group is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.