What does “performance” mean?
- 1
nounthe act of performing a play, piece of music or show
The evening performance starts at eight.
- 2
nounhow well a person, machine or company does something
Her performance at work has improved a lot.
Performance at a glance
- Part of speech
- noun
- CEFR level
- B1 (intermediate)
- Pronunciation
- /pərˈfɔrməns/ · per-FOR-muns
Common phrases with “performance”
- live performance
- give a performance
- job performance
- high performance
Synonyms, opposites and related words
Word family
- perform
- performer
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