peer review

1. 1.

   evaluate professionally a colleague's work

   Synonymsreferee

   Broaderreview

Questions about peer review

What does peer review mean?

peer review means "evaluate professionally a colleague's work".

What is another word for peer review?

Close synonyms include referee. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is peer review a common word?

peer review 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.