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PEER REVIEW

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does peer review mean? 

PEER REVIEW (verb)
  The verb PEER REVIEW has 1 sense:

1. evaluate professionally a colleague's workplay

  Familiarity information: PEER REVIEW used as a verb is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


PEER REVIEW (verb)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Evaluate professionally a colleague's work

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

peer review; referee

Hypernyms (to "peer review" is one way to...):

critique; review (appraise critically)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something


 Context examples 


A chief rationale for peer review is that rarely is just one person, or one closely working group, able to spot every mistake or weakness in a complicated piece of work.

(Peer Review, NCI Thesaurus)

Official process of peer review for federal grants

(Grant Review Process, NCI Thesaurus)

Advise the Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services and the Director, NCI, with respect to the activities of the Institute including reviewing and recommending for support grants and cooperative agreements, following technical and scientific peer review.

(National Cancer Advisory Board, NCI Thesaurus)



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