Performance

Definition: Performance

Performance

Noun

1. A dramatic or musical entertainment; "they listened to ten different performances"; "the play ran for 100 performances"; "the frequent performances of the symphony testify to its popularity".

2. The act of performing; of doing something successfully; using knowledge as distinguished from merely possessing it; "they criticised his performance as mayor"; "experience generally improves performance".

3. The act of presenting a play or a piece of music or other entertainment; "we congratulated him on his performance at the rehearsal"; "an inspired performance of Mozart's C minor concerto".

4. Process or manner of functioning or operating; "the power of its engine determine its operation"; "the plane's operation in high winds"; "they compared the cooking performance of each oven"; "the jet's performance conformed to high standards".

5. Any recognized accomplishment; "they admired his performance under stress"; "when Roger Maris powered four home runs in one game his performance merits awe".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "performance" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references)

Building & Civil Engineering

Economics

Electrical Engineering

Food & Agriculture

Law

Transportation

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

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Synonyms: Performance

Action

Noun: action, performance; doing; Verb: perpetration; exercise, excitation; movement, operation, evolution, work; labor; (exertion); praxis, execution; procedure; (conduct); handicraft; business; agency; (power at work).

Completion

Noun: completion, accomplishment, achievement, fulfillment; performance, execution; despatch, dispatch; consummation, culmination; finish, conclusion; close; (end); terminus; (arrival); winding up; finale, denouement, catastrophe, issue, upshot, result; final touch, last touch, crowning touch, finishing touch, finishing stroke; last finish, coup de grace; crowning of the edifice; coping-stone, keystone; missing link; superstructure, ne plus ultra, work done, fait accompli.

Duty

Observance, fulfillment, discharge, performance, acquittal, satisfaction, redemption; good behavior.

Effect

Production, produce, work, handiwork, fabric, performance; creature, creation; offspring, offshoot; firstfruits, firstlings; heredity, telegony; premices premises.

Observance

Noun: observance, performance, compliance, acquiescence, concurrence; obedience; fulfillment, satisfaction, discharge; acquittance, acquittal.

Production

Noun: {ant., } production, creation, construction, formation, fabrication, manufacture; building, architecture, erection, edification; coinage; diaster; organization; nisus formativus; putting together; Verb: establishment; workmanship, performance; achievement; (completion).

Summit

Summit conference, summit; peak of achievement, peak of performance; peaks and troughs, peaks and valleys.

The Drama

Performance, representation, mise en scene, stagery, jeu de theatre; acting; gesture; impersonation; stage business, gag, buffoonery.

Virtue

Well-doing; good actions, good behavior; discharge of duty, fulfillment of duty, performance of duty; well-spent life; innocence.

Crosswords: Performance

French (acting, action, performance, showing), German (performance), Italian (performance), Portuguese (performance, performances).

What an eccentric performance. (Monty Python and the Holy Grail; writing credit: Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, and Michael Palin.)

You'll give the performance of your life (All About Eve; writing credit: Joseph L. Mankiewicz)

If you want to come round and be sick you might at least save it for the end of the performance. (Englishman Abroad, An; writing credit: Alan Bennett)

He's embiggened that role with that cromulent performance! (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge)

Children, your performance in the school fundraiser was pathetic (Invader ZIM; writing credit: Carel Donck)

Your performance deserving a standing ovation (Hella Good; performing artist: No Doubt)

If man had created man, he would be ashamed of his performance. (references; author: Mark Twain)

An ounce of image is worth a pound of performance. (references; author: unknown)

When riding a dead horse (government), try rewriting the expected performance requirements for all horses. (references; author: unknown)

Performance (1974)

Lenny Bruce: Performance Film (1973)

Performance (1970)

Farewell Performance (1962)

Prize Performance (1950)

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

References

• Action Performance Companies, Inc.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

• Performance Food Group Company: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

• McLaren Performance Technologies, Inc.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

  (more reference examples)

Books

• Effect of Bicarbonate Alkalinity on Performance of Advanced Oxidation Processes (reference)

• Choosing and Using a Ccd Camera: A Practical Guide to Getting Maximum Performance from Your Ccd Camera/Book and Disk (reference)

• Written Voices, Spoken Signs: Tradition, Performance, and the Epic Text (Center for Hellenic Studies Colloquia) (reference)

• Can de-Industrialization Seriously Damage Your Wealth?: A Review of Why Growth Rates Differ & How to Improve Economic Performance (reference)

• The Six Sigma Way: How GE, Motorola, and Other Top Companies are Honing Their Performance (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Car Sound & Performance (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies

• Erroll Garner - In Performance (reference)

• Performance (reference)

• Performance Mountain Biking (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Follies in Concert (1985 Live Performance) + Stavisky Film Score [CAST RECORDING] [LIVE] (reference)

• Porgy & Bess: High Performance (reference)

• Les Miserables - The Musical That Swept The World: A Concert At Royal Albert Hall (10th Anniversary Performance) [CAST RECORDING] [SOUNDTRACK] [LIVE] (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• Peak Performance (reference)

• Performance AC Adapter (reference)

• LA490 - American Legacy Series 2 - 600 Watt High Performance 2 Channel Amplifier (reference)

• Performance Now 3.0 (reference)

• PERFORMANCE NOW 4.0 (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

Consumer Goods

• Black & Decker RTX-1 High Performance Rotary Tool Kit (reference)

• Panasonic EYC133 15.6-Volt Cordless Performance Package Wood Combo Kit (reference)

  (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)

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

Staff from the California Department of Fish and Game, NOAA, and Performance Excavators attend the dedication for the Roy's Dam restoration project. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

Inside TEKTITE I habitat, used by NASA to study drew performance. Credit: National Undersea Research Program (NURP).

Diver checks the performance of a fish trap used to collect reef fish. Credit: National Undersea Research Program (NURP).

TIROS performance summary as of February 10, 1964. In: "TIROS A Story of Achievement" RCA, February 28, 1964, Table 5. Credit: NOAA in Space.

Decked out in a Civil War Union soldier's uniform, Master Sgt. Jari Villanueva stands at a bugle display table at Arlington National Cemetery, Va., during a living history performance of military buglers. Villanueva is holding a keyed bugle, which was an.

George Johnson in costume for performance at the NHOTIC. Credit: BLM Staff.

Theater performance --Browns & Mahush-- at the NHOTIC. Credit: BLM Staff.

Smoking : Spoils Your Performance. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Receives the Navy Cross and Distinguished Service Medal for his performance while in command of USS Hammann (DD-412) during the May-June 1942 Battles of Coral Sea and Midway. Hammann was lost on 6 June 1942, during the Midway action. Presenting the awards is Admiral William F. Halsey. Photograph was taken circa October 1942. Credit: NAVY.

The "Jazz Rock Band" of the United States Navy Band, photographed on board a sailing ship, circa the early 1970s. This performance uniform was worn through 1974. Credit: NAVY.

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

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

No one shall be distrained for performance of greater service for a knight's fee, or for any other free tenement, than is due therefrom. (reference)

To aid him in the performance of these duties, he is authorized to appoint certain officers, who act by his authority and in conformity with his orders. (reference)

The Tribunal may appoint and employ any other necessary officer or officers to assist in the performance of its duties. (reference)

It is required in the performance of our most basic public responsibilities, even service in the armed forces. (reference)

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They talked at first only of the performance.

(r)The performance of the reparation is a process in which the whole soul is absorbed

My master observed the whole performance with great signs of curiosity and admiration

Now for a handful of guilders I happen to have a private and uncut performance of the rape of the Sabine Women - or rather woman, or rather Alfred -Get your skirt on Alfred

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

Auditory performance with a cochlear implant varies among individuals. (references)

Current level of fatigue, including subjective or performance aspects. (references)

The JCAHO prepares a performance report on each hospital that it surveys. (references)

Business

Productivity, performance and quality are very much improved. (references)

The high performance engineering plastics market is the most promising. (references)

The agent's responsibilities and performance measures should be clearly defined. (references)

Children

South Africa

The school funding formula, based on norms and standards tied to physical resources and performance, devotes 60 percent of nonpersonnel resources toward the 40 percent most needy schools. (references)

Netherlands

The U.N. Commission on Childrens' Rights in 1999 expressed concern about the Government's performance in this area, in particular, the long waiting list for assistance to abused children. (references)

Panama

The Minister of Youth, Women, Children, and Family Affairs acts much like an ombudsman, and the office proposes and reviews laws and monitors government performance. (references)

Civil Liberties

Nepal

Local authorities in Boudhanath, Kathmandu, halted the performance of a traditional dance scheduled to be performed on February 26, during the 6-day celebration of the Tibetan New Year. (references)

Belarus

Police who were questioned at trial could not explain on what charges the members of Zubr were arrested, held, or beaten, nor could they define the illegal nature of the performance in which the Zubrs had been engaged. (references)

Slovak Republic

In a commentary published on May 26, Kratky wrote that the President's State of the Nation address "indicated signs of mental incapacity to lead a country that is trying to join the modern and developed nations." The Office of the President cited Article 103 of the Penal Code, which stipulates that one who publicly defames the president for the performance of his duties or his activities in public life may be punished by up to a 2-year prison sentence, as the basis for their complaint. (references)

Economic History

Indonesia

The US-AEP Policy Office, which coordinates the above programs, also supports an industrial and urban transformation in Asia through four main objectives: framing a policy agenda, catalyzing an international policy network, promoting public disclosure of environmental performance data, and measuring industrial environmental performance. (references)

Georgia

Although growth through 2000 was positive, Georgia's economic performance has slowed, with GDP growth of 3 percent in 1999 and 1.9 percent in 2000, and estimated at between 3.9 and 5.4 percent for 2001. While a severe drought in the summer of 2000 undermined Georgia's projections for economic growth that year, the decline is also due to fundamental economic problems that have eroded investor confidence in Georgia. (references)

Egypt

Fiscal Policy: Budget discipline has been a priority for the Government of Egypt in the 1990s, and budget deficits as a percentage of GDP averaged just over 1% between FY 94/95 and FY 97/98. However, this performance was marred somewhat by lack of transparency in areas such as the defense budget, capital investment expenditures, and deficit financing for economic authorities. (references)

Human Rights

Bangladesh

A case remains pending against 24 individuals, including former minister and BNP leader Tariqul Islam, in connection with the March 1999 bombing of a performance of the left-affiliated cultural group Udichi Shilpi Gosthi. (references)

Nicaragua

Inadequate budget support for the National Police also hampered efforts to improve police performance and resulted in a continuing shortage of officers. (references)

Kazakhstan

Five police officers were charged with improper performance of their duties in connection with the alleged beating, but none were convicted. (references)

Indigenous People

Australia

The mandate of the Council for Aboriginal Reconciliation, created by Parliament in 1991, expired in 2000. The Council's final report was released in December 2000, and it included recommendations that the federal and state governments set performance benchmarks and timelines for overcoming Aboriginal disadvantage and enact legislation to further the principles of legislation; that Parliament prepare legislation providing for a referendum on deleting a constitutional amendment on racial criteria for voting; and that the Constitution be amended to make racial discrimination unlawful. (references)

Political Economy

CHINA

China abolished subsidies conditioned directly on export performance for most goods on January 1, 1991. Nonetheless, exports of agricultural products, particularly corn and cotton, still receive direct export subsidies as of 2001. There continue to be reports that some manufactured exports benefit from indirect subsidies through preferential or below-market rate access to inputs such as energy and raw materials. (references)

COSTA RICA

The growing costs of Costa Rica's extensive social services, coupled with poor performance in collecting taxes, limits the government's ability to address needed infrastructure improvements and to contain the fiscal deficit. (references)

Political Rights

Albania

The OSCE's ODIHR, which observed the elections, noted that there was progress in the areas of election administration, media coverage, and campaign conduct; however, ODIHR's final report noted that the election process was "protracted, uncertain, and fragmented." It also noted some serious irregularities in the voting process, including ballot box stuffing; fraud in a limited number of constituencies; political pressure exercised at times that compromised the performance of the Central Elections Commission (CEC); inadequate handling of key elections complaints by the CEC; police interference in a limited number of instances; and a dubious appeals process, particularly with regard to the Constitutional Court. (references)

Indonesia

In July the MPR met to convene an "Extraordinary Session" to require then-President Wahid to account for his performance in office. (references)

Trade

Thailand

The IMF continues to monitor Thai macro-economic performance. (references)

Worker Rights

Denmark

The law also prescribes conditions of work, including safety and health; the duties of employers, supervisors, and employees; work performance; rest periods and days off; and medical examinations. (references)

Romania

Exploitation includes slavery, forced labor, prostitution, performance in pornographic films, organ theft, or other conditions that violate human rights. (references)

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

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

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "performance": aeroplane performance operating limitations ♦ Athletic performance ♦ benefit performance ♦ bit error performance ♦ centralization of performance ♦ cinema performance ♦ circus performance ♦ climb performance ♦ continuous performance ♦ dramatic performance ♦ during the performance ♦ electronic Performance Support System ♦ Employee Performance Appraisal ♦ exceptional performance ♦ first performance ♦ free performance ♦ gala performance ♦ give a special performance ♦ guest performance ♦ head performance criterion ♦ high performance ♦ high Performance Computing and Communications ♦ high Performance File System ♦ high Performance Fortran ♦ high performance liquid chromatography ♦ high Performance Parallel Interface ♦ high Performance Routing ♦ high Performance Serial Bus ♦ High Performance Trace Analysis ♦ Intel Comparative Microprocessor Performance index ♦ Investigation of performance achievable with highly concurrent interpretations of functional programs ♦ Karnofsky performance score ♦ Karnofsky Performance Status ♦ minimum navigation performance specifications ♦ morning performance ♦ musical performance ♦ operational performance categories ♦ outdoor performance ♦ outstanding performance ♦ painful performance ♦ peak performance ♦ performance bond ♦ performance capability ♦ performance management ♦ performance of duty ♦ performance on production ♦ performance status ♦ poor performance ♦ private performance ♦ professional performance ♦ Psychomotor Performance ♦ put on a proud performance ♦ repeat performance ♦ return performance ♦ scheduled performance ♦ special performance ♦ specific performance ♦ Task Performance and Analysis ♦ theatrical performance ♦ top performance. Additional references.

Beginning with "performance": performance-affecting, performance-art, performance-artist, performance-based, performance-bound, performance-cum-composition, performance-data, performance-enhanced, performance-enhancing, performance-friendly, performance-improving, performance-indicate, performance-indicators, performance-intensive, performance-linked, performance-measurement, performance-measuring, performance-over-a-pint, performance-per-pound, performance-programme, performance-related, performance-reward, performance-saloon, performance-tested, performance-wise.

Ending with "performance": higher-performance, non-performance, pre-performance, price-performance, Pro-performance, under-performance.

Containing "performance": effort-performance-reward.

Afrikaans

beneficevoorstelling (benefit, benefit performance), benefice (benefit, benefit performance). (various references)

Albanian

përmbushje (completion, consummation, execution, fruition, fulfillment, fulfilment, indulgence, satisfaction), përfundim (afterpiece, closing, closure, completion, conclusion, consequence, consummation, denouement, derivation, development, eduction, effect, end product, event, expiration, finality, finding, finish, fulfillment, fulfilment, harvest, issue, job, lapse, last, offshoot, offspring, outcome, output, perfecting, result, resume, rider, total, train, upshot, windup), rendiment (efficiency), lojë (fun, game, joke, kiss-in-the-ring, play, toy, trick), kryerje (accomplishment, achievement, acquittal, commission, commitment, committal, discharge, execution, exercise, feasibility, fulfillment, fulfilment, implementation, perpetration, prosecution, pursuance, transaction), interpretim (acting, construction, exegesis, exegetics, exposition, interpretation, reading, rendition, version), ekzekutim (decimation, execution), efektshmëri (effectiveness, efficacy, efficiency). (various references)

Arabic 

‏فعل (act, action, do, doing, make, work), ‏فعالية (activity, effectiveness, efficacy, efficiency, influence, leverage), ‏مسرحية (drama, play, show, spectacle), ‏مباشرة (direct, directly, directness, fair, immediately, initiation, practise, pursuit, straight, straightway), ‏تمثيل (creation, mayhem, personification, picture, play, representation, sculpture, sham, torture), ‏تأدية (interpretation), ‏تشخيص (personification), ‏سير العمل (carry on), ‏سلوك (action, antics, attitude, bearing, behavior, behaviour, conduct, course, demeanor, demeanour, goings on, habit, manner, walk), ‏عمل عظيم, ‏إنجاز (accomplishment, achievement, despatch, dispatch, execution, fulfillment, fulfilment, implementation, implementing, realization), ‏إشتغال محرك, ‏أداء (execution, rendering, showing). (various references)

Bulgarian 

работа (affair, avocation, berth, billet, business, char, concern, dealings, do, employ, employment, engagement, function, job, labor, labour, lay, line, matter, occasions, occupation, operation, part, place, ploy, proceedings, proposition, run, running, service, shebang, shop, show, situation, thing, undertaking, work, working, workmanship), характеристика (characteristic, characterization), концерт (concert, concerto), коефициент на полезно действие (efficiency), номер (event, feature, fetch, hoax, item, jig, number, registration number, size, waggery), забава (entertainment, fun, party, play), експлоатационни качества, проява (avatar, display, exhibition, manifestation, piece, procedure, proceeding, show), производителност (efficiency, output, out-turn, productiveness, productivity, rating), представление (act, entertainment, house, night, play, production, puppetry, representation, show), постижение (accession, accomplishment, achievement, acquest, acquirement, acquisition, attainment, effort), подвиг (achievement, exploit, feat), извършване (achievement, prosecution), изпълнение (accomplishment, acquittal, acting, completion, discharge, effect, effectuation, enforcement, execution, exercise, implementation, interpretation, operation, pursuance, rendering, rendition, working out), действие (act, action, deed, effect, movements, operation, play, potency, process, run, scene, scourge). (various references)

Chinese 

表现 (Behave, Behaved, Behaving, Presentment), 表演 (act, demonstrate, exhibition, perform, play, show), 性能 (function), 成績 . (various references)

Czech

provedení (accomplishment, execution, finish, rendering), produkce (output, produce, production, yield), představení (introduction, play, presentation, presentment, representation, show), výkon (achievement, exercise, feat, operation, output, prosecution), interpretace (construction, interpretation, rendering, rendition), hra (acting, cherrystone, chuck-farthing, deck, game, hand, jack-straws, pastime, piece, play), ceremonie (ceremony, rigmarole). (various references)

Danish

præstation (efficiency, output, productivity, working capacity), ydelse (allocation, allowance, benefit, bonus, entitlement, flow rate, fluid yield, machine output, output, performance on production, performances, production, productive output, work output, yield), ydeevne, funktion (function), faktisk virkningsgrad (actual efficiency, efficiency, operating efficiency, output, work output), arbejdspræstation (efficiency, output, productivity, working capacity), aktuel virkningsgrad (actual efficiency, efficiency, operating efficiency, output, work output). (various references)

Dutch

prestatievermogen (capacity), prestaties, prestatie (accomplishment, achievement, acquirement, act, action, feat), werkprestatie (efficiency, output, productivity, working capacity), doelmatigheid (effectiveness, efficiency, operating efficiency), arbeidsrendement (actual efficiency, efficiency, operating efficiency, output, work output), arbeidsprestatie (efficiency, output, productivity, working capacity). (various references)

Esperanto

muzika prezentaĵo (musical performance), benefico (benefit performance). (various references)

Farsi 

نمایش (Appearance, Display, Drama, Exhibition, Exposure, Histrionics, Ostentation, Parade, Play, Portrayal, Presentation, Representation, Show, Showing, Spectacle), کاربرجسته (Exploit), ایفا, اجرا (Accomplishment, Administration, Implementation), شاهکار (Exploit, Masterwork, Mesterpiece, Stunt). (various references)

Finnish

suoritus (achievement, payment, settlement). (various references)

French

performance, représentation, comportement. (various references)

German

Leistung (accomplishment, achievement, benefit, capacity, effort, feat, merit, obligation, output, payment, power, produce, rating, result, service, showing, work), vorstellung (association, conceivability, concept, conception, house, idea, illusion, image, imagination, interview, introduction, notion, offering, perception, picture, play, presentation, show, showing, vision), Performanz, Durchsatz (flow-rate, throughput), Durchführung (carrying out, enforcement, execution, holding, implementation, operation, prosecution, realisation, running, taking, transaction), aufführung (behaviour, conduct, deportment, game, list, listing, performing, presentation, recital, show, showing, staging), Arbeitsleistung (efficiency, output). (various references)

Greek 

παράσταση (presentation, presentment, production, remonstrance, remonstration, representation, show), επίδοση (application, proficiency), απόδοση (ascription, attribution, imputation, output, production, rendering, rendition, return). (various references)

Hebrew 

פעולה (act, action, activity, deed, doing, function, operation), עשיה (action, deed, doing, making), הצגה (play, show, showing, staging), בצוע (achievement, carrying into effect, completion, execution, implementation, operation, pursuance, realization, rendering, rendition). (various references)

Hungarian

végrehajtás (consummation, enforcement, execution, fulfillment, fulfilment, implement, implementation, pursuance), véghezvitel (achievement, commission, completion, pursuance), teljesítmény (accomplishment, achievement, capacity, effect, efficacy, efficiency, level of norm, output, throughput, turning out, yield), megtétel, eljátszás (acting, forfeit, forfeiture, re-enactment). (various references)

Indonesian

pertunjukan (exposition, reciprocate, recital), perbuatan (act, action, deed), kinerja, gebyakan. (various references)

Italian

prestazione (lending). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

執行 (enforcement), 業 (act, deed, work), 実行 (carrying out, practice), 履行 (discharge, fulfillment, implementation). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

わざ (act, art, deed, technique, work), だしもの (program), えんげい (entertainment, gardening, horticulture), えんぎ (acting, adaptation, amplification, commentary, drama, expansion, omen, play), てぎわ (skill, tact), じょうえん (burning passions, flaming desires, passion), じっこう (efficacy, efficiency, execution, practice, realization), じつえん (stage show), げんごうんよう, だんそう (disguising oneself as a man, dislocation, magazine, playing on stringed instruments), ステージ (stage), ぎょうせき (achievement, behavior, contribution, results, work), りこう (bright, clever, discharge, fulfillment, implementation, intelligent, science and technology, sharp, shrewd, wise), できばえ (effect, execution, finishing touches, result, shape and quality of, success, workmanship), できぐあい (effect, result, success), さくひん (opus, production, work), しゅつえん (contribution, stage appearance, subscription), しゅつじょう (appearance, participation), しっこう (abatement, enforcement, invalidation, japanning, lacquer work, lapse, misunderstanding, moving forward by sliding on one's knees), パフォーマンス , パーフォーマンス , げい (accomplishment, art). (various references)

Korean 

성과. (various references)

Manx

obbraghey (act, action, behaviour, behaviour of machines, crew, cultivate, elaboration, employment, exercise, forge, function, handle, handling, influence, labour, motion, operate, operation, ply, process, start, wangle; persuance, work, work up, wreak), jannoo (accomplish, accomplishment, act, build, cast, coalesce, commit, committal, compose, conferment, conformation, construct, construction, create, deal, deed, do, effect, execute, fabricate, fashion, fend, fill, follow out, formation, goings on, keep, make, manufacture, perform, performing, perpetrate, perpetration, persuance, practise, produce, production, render; doing, structure, style, transact, transaction, transactions), cloie (act, boil, bubble, charade, enact, event, extemporise, game, match, monkey, perform, play, represent, skylark, sport). (various references)

Pig Latin

erformancepay.(various references)

Portuguese

proeza (accomplishments, exploit, feat, prowess, trick), performance (performances), peça dramática (skit), rendimento efectivo (actual efficiency, efficiency, operating efficiency, output, work output), rendimento do trabalho (efficiency, output, productivity, working capacity), rendimento da mão-de-obra (efficiency, output, productivity, working capacity), realização (accomplishment, achievement, acting, actualization, attainment, completion, consummation, execution, fruition, fulfillment, fulfilment, materialization, prosecution, realization, transaction, working-out), qualidades de funcionamento, representação teatral (presentation), rendimento real (actual efficiency), ação notável, execução (accomplishment, acting, discharge, enforcement, execution, fulfillment, fulfilment, making, observance, pursuance, working-out, workmanship), cumprimento (accomplishment, accost, acquittal, compliment, enforcement, fulfillment, fulfilment, greeting, hallo, implementation, observance, respect, salute), comportamento (actions, bearing, behavior, behaviorism, behaviour, behaviourism, carriage, conduct, course, dealing, demean, demeanor, demeanour, deportment, moral, ongoings, proceeding, walking), coisa realizada, características de funcionamento, atuação (acting, agency, interaction, operation, procedure, proceeding). (various references)

Romanian

prestidigitaţie (legerdemain, prestidigitation, sleight of hand), performanţã (feat), pedeapsã (calamity, castigation, chastisement, cuss, discipline, imposition, lag, pain, payment, pedate, penalty, penance, plague, punishment, retribution, rod, sanction, trouble), spectacol (a grand sight, entertainment, play, presentment, scene, show, sight, spectacle), randament (accomplishment, benefit, capability, capacity, effect, efficacy, efficiency, load, output, outturn, power, rating, return, yield), interpretare (acting, construction, execution, exposition, intendment, interpretation, paraphrase, reading, rendering, rendition), faptã urâtã, executare (carriage, death, dispatch, enforcement, execution, printing out, scratch, workmanship), capacitate de zbor. (various references)

Russian 

исполнение (execution, fulfillment, fulfilment, pursuance, show stopping). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

predstava (idea, notion, show, taste), performanse, performans, upotreba jezika, učinak (output, out-turn), osobine, nastupanje (appearance, attack, ingoing), izvršenje (execution, implementation, perpetration), izvođenje (derivation, doing, presentation, staging). (various references)

Spanish

representación (concert, depiction, personation, picture, portrayal, presentation, presentment, rendering, representation), rendimiento (devotedness, efficiency, output, production, pull, throwput, yield). (various references)

Swedish

uppträdande (apparition, appearance, apperance, behavior, behaviour, conduct, dealings, demeanor, demeanour, deportment, front, manner, outcrop), prestation (accomplishment, achievement, effort, exploit, feat), prestanda (obligations), performans, föreställning (conception, idea, image, imagination, protest, remonstration, show). (various references)

Turkish

performans, yerine getirme (acquittal, administration, consummation, execution, exercise, fulfillment, fulfilment, implement, implementation, observance, pursuance, redemption), verim (capacity, crop, delivery, effect, efficiency, feat, make, output, outturn, rating, richness, run, turnout, yield), oyun (act, acting, canard, dance, device, frolic, game, hoax, play, presentment, representation, spectacle, sport, stage play, trick, wheeze), icraat, gösteri (demo, demonstration, entertainment, exhibition, house, parade, performing, play, program, programme, shew, show, showing), başarma gücü, başarı (accomplishment, achievement, click, deed, effort, feat, go, hit, joy, prosperity, show, smash, speed, stroke, success, triumph, victory, win). (various references)

Ukrainian

робота (action, business, job, labor, labour, occupation, operation, proceedings, work, working), кіносеанс, гра (acting, game, play), вистава (big time, dramatics, playacting, presentment, program, programme, spectacle), виконання (accomplishment, achievement, acquittal, acting, completion, effectuation, execution, fulfilment, implementation, pursuance, pursuit, realization, redemption, rendition), здійснення (effect, effectuation, enforcement, execution, exercise, fruition, fulfilment, implementation, materialization), дія (act, action, deed, do, effect, operation, work). (various references)

Vietnamese 

tốc độ (sped, speed, velocity), sự thực hiện (actualization, effectuation, execution, exercise, materialization, realization, transaction), sự làm (making, preparation), độ cao (high, intension, loftiness). (various references)

Welsh

perfformiad, cyflawniad (achievement, fulfillment). (various references)

actibus, actu, actum, actus, commissio, defunctionis, defunctis, effectum, effectus, exsecutiones, exsecutores, gestum. (various references)

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

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

Derivations

Words beginning with "performance": performances. (additional references)

Words ending with "performance": nonperformance, preperformance. (additional references)

Words containing "performance": nonperformances, preperformances. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Performance" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: peformance, perfomance, perforance, performace, performamce, performan, performanc, performanse, performatnce, performence, perfromance, perormance, preformance, preformence, prformance, proformance. (additional references)

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

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-3 letters: camporee, comparer, confrere, enforcer, forename, parcener, perforce, prefacer, profaner, romancer.

-4 letters: amercer, caperer, compare, compeer, compere, corneae, crampon, creamer, emperor, enforce, enframe, foramen, forearm, foreman, foremen, foreran, freeman, manrope, menacer, perform, prancer, preface, preform, prename, prerace, profane, reframe, romance.

-5 letters: amerce, ampere, camper, careen, career, carmen, carper, carrom, confer, cornea, corner, crepon, earner.

+1 letter: performances.

+3 letters: nonperformance, preperformance.

+4 letters: nonperformances, preperformances.