Collocations for "performance"
Common phrases and expressions where native English speakers use the word "performance" in context.
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performance
ⓘMost examples are given in US English. We have labeled exceptions as UK.n
- was a [great, fantastic, stunning, good, promising] performance
- [put on, gave] a [great] performance
- a [studio, live, TV, concert] performance
- [an award, a match, a prize, an Oscar] -winning performance
- her [test, exam, stage] performance
- the [actor's, player's, product's] performance
- [past, previous, prior, earlier] performances
- the [matinee, evening] performance of the [show, play, musical]
- gave the performance of her life (as)
- missed [his, my son's] (school) performance
- [evaluate, judge, rate] a performance
- how would you rate her performance?
- your performance in bed
- (his) sexual performance
- a great performance under [pressure, the circumstances]
- there are [two] performances every [evening, Saturday]
- the performance in terms of [quality, aesthetics, accuracy, expression]
- the performance of [tasks, duties, responsibilities]
- what a performance!
- a performance [piece, artist]
- performance art
- (suffer from) performance anxiety
- performance [evaluation, rating, appraisal]
'performance' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):
Saturday
- above
- abstract
- academic
- accomplished
- achieve
- act
- actual
- affect
- anxious
- art
- artist
- assess
- assessment
- assured
- astonishing
- athletic
- audit
- august
- award
- awe
- awesome
- awful
- bang
- belief
- better
- blemish
- boil
- book
- bound
- breakthrough
- brilliant
- calm
- capital
- chicken out
- choir
- class
- clock
- cognitive
- command
- comparison
- compliment
- complimentary
- composed
- consistency
- consistently
- content
- critic
- criticism
- curator