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life peer
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life peer
n
(Government, Politics & Diplomacy) Brit a peer whose title lapses at his death
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Noun1.life peer - a British peer whose title lapses at death
peer - a nobleman (duke or marquis or earl or viscount or baron) who is a member of the British peerage
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life peer n → pari m inv a vita
life peer n → pari m inv a vita


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Most hereditary peers seldom turn up at Parliament, and the bulk of the work is done by 300 to 400 regulars, many of them life peers.
BRITISH POWER CLASH PITS NOBLES AGAINST ACHIEVERS by Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
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