English-German translations for peer pressure

• Gruppenzwang der
  Das Scoreboard ist eine Art faktisches Recht, Gruppenzwang oder Best Practice. The scoreboard is a form of 'soft law', peer pressure or best practice.
  Wir lernen gerade gemeinsam, einen von Gruppenzwang und offener Bewertung gekennzeichneten Prozeß zu bewältigen. We are learning together to work a process of peer pressure and open evaluation.
  Der Gruppenzwang war nicht groß genug, in guten Zeiten war es nicht üblich, die öffentliche Schuld zu senken und makroökonomische Missverhältnisse wurden ignoriert. Peer pressure has lacked teeth, good times were not used to reduce public debt, and macro-economic imbalances were ignored.

Definition of peer pressure

• Encouragement or influence by one's peers

Examples

• She vowed to give up drinking during the exam period, but eventually succumbed to peer pressure and was out drinking with her friends within a week of the resolution

Related words

• peer
• peering
• peer-to-peer
• peerage
• compeer
• peerless
• peerlessly
• peer-review
• peer support
• peer group