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

  • (..) nonsense the voices are saying... but what the voices are feeling. (MUSIC STOPS) Are you messing with us? Like, is this some sort of performance? Gus, sit down. All right, so at the end of the book, Anna's... Let's imagine you're racing a tortoise. (..)
    2014 The Fault in Our Stars