performance

Definition

  • noun: an activity (such as singing a song or acting in a play) that a person or group does to entertain an audience
  • noun: the execution of an action
  • sometimes used figuratively
  • synonyms: work, deed, accomplishment

Examples

  • Event planners hope to avoid a 'repeat performance' of last year's problems. [=hope that last year's problems will not happen again this year]

  • a bicyclist who was disqualified for taking 'performance'-enhancing drugs [=drugs that improve your ability to do something]

  • How has the company's stock 'performance' been? [=has the value of the company's stock been increasing/decreasing?]

Movie clips

Movie quotes

  • (..) the pathology of the serial killer The manipulation of Western iconography Ready for another lesson? Blah blah blah. Of course, it was my performance that brought the Mandarin to life. Your performance? Where people die? No, no, look around you, costumes, green screen (..)
    2013 Iron Man 3