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单词 peerage
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There is no mechanism for those who are chosen for life peerages to give up the role.His entrepreneurial flair combined with a political career that earned him a knighthood and a peerage.Now more of them are getting peerages as well.Yesterday he was given a peerage and made commercial secretary.The party also flatly rejects suggestions that peerages were offered for donations.About a quarter have been honoured with a knighthood or peerage.At least it might get you a peerage.It took a few months between being invited to accept a peerage and its announcement.She accepted her lavish claims had scuppered any chance she had of being offered a peerage.Are they not repaid if people do get peerages?Are loans repaid if people do not get peerages?There is no independent evidence to say whether the peerage offer was a cruel joke or the result of poor staff work.Women aren't allowed to inherit most hereditary peerages.Why shouldn't they be given peerages?In 1922 evidence emerged that he had been awarding knighthoods and peerages in return for money.She could also be given a working peerage and a Lords job.If you accept a life peerage, you have some power for as long as you want.He insisted two years ago that he would not follow Labour grandees in accepting a peerage.A life peerage is no longer a life sentence.I would rather have that than a knighthood or peerage.City Academies could be given peerages.NICE to see a man who raged against the Lords all his life taking a peerage.How on earth does anyone think people got into the House of Lords before the invention of life peerages?For an opposition in the Lords it is almost a throwback to the days when the hereditary peerage constituted a majority of the members of the House.

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(noun) 
Definition
the whole body of peers
the higher echelons of the British peerage
Synonyms
aristocracy
a member of the aristocracy
peers
nobility
They married into the nobility and entered the highest ranks of society.
lords and ladies
titled classes

Quotation

When I want a peerage, I shall buy it like an honest man [Lord Northcliffe]

Additional synonyms

in the sense of nobility
Definition
the class of people who hold titles and high social rank
They married into the nobility and entered the highest ranks of society.
Synonyms
aristocracy,
lords,
elite,
nobles,
upper class,
peerage,
ruling class,
patricians,
high society

Nearby words of
peerage

  • peep
  • peephole
  • peer
  • peerage
  • peerless
  • peeve
  • peeved

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