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  "pronunciations": {
    "phonetic": [
      "p\u0259r\u02c8f\u0254rm\u0259ns"
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      "From Middle English parfourmaunce; equivalent to perform + -ance."
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        "name": "Noun",
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            "mean": "The act of performing; carrying into execution or action; execution; achievement; accomplishment; representation by action.\nthe performance of an undertaking or a duty\nThough the result wasn't what we were hoping for, I have to commend the performance of the team, never giving up until the end.\n1959,  Georgette Heyer,  chapter 1, in  The Unknown Ajax:Charles had not been employed above six months at Darracott Place, but he was not such a whopstraw as to make the least noise in the performance of his duties when his lordship was out of humour."
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            "mean": "That which is performed or accomplished; a thing done or carried through; an achievement; a deed; an act; a feat; especially, an action of an elaborate or public character."
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            "mean": "(art) A live show or concert.\nThe band played a mix of old and new songs during their 90-minute performance.\nWe saw the whole ballet performance from the front row."
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            "mean": "The amount of useful work accomplished estimated in terms of time needed, resources used, etc.\nBetter performance means more work accomplished in shorter time and/or using fewer resources."
          },
          {
            "mean": "(linguistics) The actual use of language in concrete situations by native speakers of a language, as opposed to the system of linguistic knowledge they possess (competence), cf. linguistic performance."
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            "mean": "performance at OneLook Dictionary Search\nperformance in Keywords for Today: A 21st Century Vocabulary, edited by The Keywords Project, Colin MacCabe, Holly Yanacek, 2018.\n\u201cperformance\u201d, inThe Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y. The Century Co., 1911, \u2192OCLC."
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