PERFORMERS

"PERFORMERS" is a plural of: performer.

Date "PERFORMERS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references)

Tips from 1870

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: PERFORMERS

Crosswords: PERFORMERS

We are but poor, lost circus performers. Is there a village nearby? (The Princess Bride; writing credit: William Goldman)

If you've never seen the show before, what's going to happen is these four performers are going to come out here and make everything up for you, right off the top of their heads. (Whose Line Is It Anyway?; writing credit: Dan Patterson; Mark Leveson)

The Performers (1972)

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Books

• Discipline Without Punishment/the Proven Strategy That Turns Problem Employees into Superior Performers (reference)

• How Bell Labs Creates Star Performers [DOWNLOAD: PDF] (reference)

• Stunt Performers (Living Dangerously) (reference)

• Those endearing young charms; child performers of the screen (reference)

• Niccolo Paganini: Supreme Violinist or Devil's Fiddler? (Great Performers Series) (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• Performers in Comparison 1: Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli Dinu Lipatti (reference)

• Simple Requests: New American Music for Computers and Live Performers (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Filipino gymnastic performers, July 4th, '99, Cavite, P.I. Credit: Library of Congress.

Alice Whitman and other performers on stage. Credit: Library of Congress.

Tightrope performers at 4-H Club fair, Cimarron, Kansas. Credit: Library of Congress.

Americanization program, Eufaula, Oklahoma. These are the performers. Credit: Library of Congress.

Windsor Locks, Connecticut. Indian performers at the Indian fair sponsored by the local Indian association. Credit: Library of Congress.

"Mounted Performers", Pilgrim Tercentenary Pageant, Plymouth, Mass., 1921. Credit: Library of Congress.

Primrose & West's Big Minstrels all white performers. Credit: Library of Congress.

Two performers in black face, facing each other, one in tuxedo, other in suit. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Civil Liberties

Malaysia

The Government maintains a "blacklist" of local and foreign performers, politicians, and religious leaders who may not appear on television or radio broadcasts. (references)

Economic History

Luxembourg

As one of the EU's strongest economic performers, it offers investors a prosperous, diversified, and stable business climate. (references)

Australia

Printing, publishing, food processing, petroleum products, and machinery and equipment industries are the expected to be among the strongest performers over the next two years. (references)

Human Rights

Macedonia

These detentions continued throughout the year; for example, on November 28, police detained four performers from Albania. (references)

Political Economy

BULGARIA

Bulgaria is a member of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) and a signatory to the following agreements: the Paris Convention for the Protection of Intellectual Property; the Rome Convention for the Protection of Performers, Producers of Phonograms and Broadcast Organizations; the Geneva Phonograms Convention; the Madrid Agreement for the Repression of False or Deceptive Indications of Source of Goods; the Madrid Agreement on the International Classification and Registration of Trademarks; the Patent Cooperation Treaty; the Universal Copyright Convention; the Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works; the Lisbon Agreement for the Protection of Appellations of Origin and their International Registration; the Budapest Treaty on the International Recognition of the Deposit of Microorganisms for the Purpose of Patent Protection; the Nairobi Treaty on the Protection of the Olympic Symbol, the International Convention for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants; the Vienna Agreement Establishing an International Classification of the Figurative Elements of Marks; the Nice Agreement Concerning the International Classification of Goods and Services for the Purposes of the Registration of Marks; the Strasbourg Agreement Concerning the International Patent Classification; and the Locarno Agreement Establishing an International Classification for Industrial Designs. (references)

PHILIPPINES

Performers Rights: "The qualifying rights of a performer . . . shall be maintained and exercised fifty years after his death." However, ambiguities exist concerning exclusive rights for copyright owners over broadcast and retransmission. (references)

Worker Rights

Chile

Children sell chewing gum on the street, wash windshields, work as street performers, beg, or help their parents to harvest crops. (references)

Panama

Urban child labor problems also include children working as street vendors or performers, washing cars, and running errands for businesses or local criminal groups. (references)

Luxembourg

In February the Chamber of Deputies debated the Government's policy that grants limited entry visas and special work permits to nearly 1,000 women a year, mainly from Eastern Europe, to work as performers in cabarets. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Ending with "PERFORMERS": non-performers.

Danish

international konvention om beskyttelse af udøvende kunstnere,fremstillere af fonogrammer samt radio-og fjernsynsforetagender (international convention for the protection of performers, producers of phonograms and broadcasting organisations), International konvention om beskyttelse af udøvende kunstnere og fremstillere af fonogrammer samt radio-og fjernsynsforetagender (International Convention for the Protection of Performers, Producers of Phonograms and Broadcasting Organizations). (various references)

Dutch

Internationaal Verdrag inzake de bescherming van uitvoerende kunstenaars en producenten van fonogrammen (International Convention for the Protection of Performers, Producers of Phonograms and Broadcasting Organizations). (various references)

French

Convention internationale sur la protection des artistes interprètes ou exécutants,des producteurs de phonogrammes et des organismes de radiodiffusion (International Convention for the Protection of Performers). (various references)

German

Internationales Abkommen über den Schutz der ausübenden Künstler,der Hersteller von Tonträger und der Sendeunternehmen (International Convention for the Protection of Performers, Producers of Phonograms and Broadcasting Organizations). (various references)

Italian

Convenzione internazionale sui diritti degli artisti interpreti o esecutori e dei produttori di registrazioni sonore (International Convention for the Protection of Performers, Producers of Phonograms and Broadcasting Organizations). (various references)

Pig Latin

erformerspay.(various references)

Portuguese

Convenção internacional sobre a protecção dos artistas intérpretes ou executantes,dos produtores de programas e dos organismos de radiodifusão (International Convention for the Protection of Performers, Producers of Phonograms and Broadcasting Organizations). (various references)

Spanish

Convenio internacional sobre los derechos de artistas intérpretes y productores de fonogramas (International Convention for the Protection of Performers, Producers of Phonograms and Broadcasting Organizations). (various references)

Derivations

Words ending with "PERFORMERS": nonperformers. (additional references)

Misspellings

"PERFORMERS" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: preformer, proformas. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: performer, reformers.

-2 letters: emperors, performs, preforms, premorse, reformer.

-3 letters: emperor, formers, perform, prefers, preform, reforms, remorse, reposer, rompers.

-4 letters: errors, formee, former, formes, freers, freres, mopers, ormers, prefer, proems, proser, refers, reform, repose, repros, rerose, romper, ropers, sempre.

-5 letters: erose, error, femes, feres, fores, forme, forms, freer, frees, frere, froes, frore, merer, meres, moper, mopes.

+3 letters: nonperformers.

+5 letters: preperformances.