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/pərfˈɔrməns/ Listen

noun

Performance n.

The act of performing; the carrying into execution or action; execution; achievement; accomplishment; representation by action; as, the performance of an undertaking of a duty. "Promises are not binding where the performance is impossible."

That which is performed or accomplished; a thing done or carried through; an achievement; a deed; an act; a feat; esp., an action of an elaborate or public character. "Her walking and other actual performances." "His musical performances."

Synonyms: Completion; consummation; execution; accomplishment; achievement; production; work; act; action; deed; exploit; feat.

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Etymology of 'Performance'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Performance" Quotes from Famous Books

... exempt you from the performance of this sacred duty, Josepha," replied the empress firmly. "It is a time-honored custom of our family, that the princesses of Austria, who marry kings, should take leave of the graves of their ancestors. I cannot release the Queen of Naples from her duty. ...

— Joseph II. and His Court • L. Muhlbach

... Peasley," as he was called in Swan Creek, an incurable practical joker, loved and shunned by all who knew him. He asked me as he came up if I were "going to the show." Thinking it was best to dissemble, I told him I was, but said nothing of my intention to stop the performance; I thought it would be a lesson to That Jim to let him walk fifteen miles for nothing, for it was clear that he was going, too. Still, I wished he would go on ahead or drop behind. But he could not very well ...

— The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, Volume 8 - Epigrams, On With the Dance, Negligible Tales • Ambrose Bierce

... peculiar uplifting of the brows which spoke a brittle humor, she looked at the floor as if selecting a place for the performance. ...

— The Last Shot • Frederick Palmer

... to be throwing her very soul into the performance. Passers- by in Crane Court paused, regarded the first-floor windows of the publishing and editorial offices of Good Humour with troubled ...

— Tommy and Co. • Jerome K. Jerome

... been allotted to Writers who seem very little acquainted with the Nature of their Task, or very negligent about the Performance. They rarely afford any other Account than might be collected from publick Papers, and imagine themselves writing a Life when they exhibit a chronological Series of Actions or Preferments; and so ...

— The Vanity of Human Wishes (1749) and Two Rambler papers (1750) • Samuel Johnson

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