noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a concert performance
▪ She gave a number of concert performances in Berlin.
a performance rating
▪ They received different pay increases even though their performance ratings were the same.
academic performance
▪ Personal problems may affect a student’s academic performance.
command performance
creditable performance
▪ The team produced a creditable performance.
debut match/performance etc
▪ He scored in his debut match for the club.
economic performance (=how well a company, country, or economy is doing)
▪ How do you explain this poor economic performance over the last few years?
gala dinner/performance/night etc
▪ the Society’s Gala Dinner
▪ a charity gala evening
give a performance/display
▪ They gave one of their best performances to date.
live...performance
▪ The band will be giving a live concert performance next week.
performance art
repeat performance (=have the same thing happen again)
▪ It was a terrible journey – I hope we don’t have a repeat performance on the way home.
sales performance (=how much a company sells)
▪ There has been an encouraging improvement in sales performance.
stellar performance
▪ McKellen gave a stellar performance.
superior performance
▪ This boat meets the needs of serious yachtsmen who demand superior performance.
virtuoso performance
▪ a virtuoso performance
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
economic
▪ But there are no convincing reasons for believing that this would have a beneficial effect on economic performance.
▪ The downside of such excellent economic performance is that virtually any alternative scenario will represent a deterioration.
▪ The financial world has been disdainful of his economic performance partly because it has concentrated on the interests of the poor.
▪ But weak economic performance, supporters said, is precisely why Kim has pushed so hard to revise the labor law.
▪ Bloody-mindedness on all sides soon began to show in the economic performance of the region.
▪ There is increasing evidence that shortcomings in the industrial building stock are an obstacle to better national economic performance.
▪ According to the state's traffic planning department, traffic calming had improved the economic performance of cities like Dusseldorf.
▪ Regulated, socialised economies trample on human dignity, despoil the natural environment and depress economic performance.
financial
▪ The most telling indicator of Railfreight's success in the 1980s was the unprecedented turnround in its financial performance.
▪ Positive results were immediately forthcoming in the forms of short-term financial performance and higher compensation.
▪ This implies an oscillating financial performance for the industry as a whole.
▪ Even among the biggest and best known firms, financial performance is becoming more important in separating sheep from goats.
▪ Otherwise, the partners would be profiled in terms of their key characteristics, financial performance and likely valuation.
▪ It is a difficult choice to make for what is the more admirable about Essex - their financial or cricketing performance.
▪ The net result is that our overall financial performance has improved from a fairly mediocre position.
▪ The financial performances of these firms is then compared with an otherwise matched sample of small firms.
good
▪ Jaguar produced their best performance of the season, with Eddie Irvine and Pedro de la Rosa finishing seventh and eighth respectively.
▪ They have come to recognize the perils of homogeneity; they believe in better performance through an altered internal chemistry.
▪ She tells me that unless you are in a state of tension you don't give your best performance.
▪ For gamers, there's little doubt that upgrading the video card ranks right up there in the best upgrades for performance.
▪ It would enable better planning and performance.
▪ It will be better than current performance, but not necessarily as challenging as the long-term goal of world-class performance.
▪ The company has also upgraded its Macintosh server to version 4.0, claiming better performance.
▪ Public entrepreneurs know that when institutions are funded according to inputs, they have little reason to strive for better performance.
high
▪ Auspex says it will upgrade the box to higher performance Sparc Mbus modules over time.
▪ They act as a catalyst for a company and help it to focus on a higher level of performance.
▪ All single-engine, high performance, military aircraft fly with a degree of inherent risk.
▪ What, exactly, are these mythical fears that so regularly block the path to high performance?
▪ They expect high levels of performance.
▪ It is when we get into the high performance area that the ratio of cross-section to strength comes into play.
▪ The organisational structure most conducive to high performance depends on whether the environment is stable and simple, or changing and complex.
▪ He describes how the Digital Equipment Corporation at Ayr have pursued quality and flexibility by introducing high performance, self-managing work teams.
live
▪ The percentage of the population which attends live performances of music more than very occasionally is very small.
▪ His embrace of recorded music over live performances would eventually lead to a shift in the role of records on radio.
▪ For most, it was their first opportunity to see a live orchestral performance.
▪ Maybe there is room to use this power of attraction to create a new method of live rock performance.
▪ From this unique contraption, Hart will oversee the live performances.
▪ Only later did anyone realise that he was due to sing a live solo performance for the station.
▪ These broadcasts don't need to be records because live performances on local radio can also count.
overall
▪ This demonstrates the immense importance of the detector in the overall performance of the zoned system.
▪ Significant gaps continue in the overall performance of girls, despite the narrowing of the gender gap in verbal and mathematical performance.
▪ Despite the difference in overall level of performance the relationship between risk and recognition performance in the two studies was remarkably similar.
▪ The faith in regularities applies only to overall performances and to long run outcomes in human collective life.
▪ The question is, does this added complexity and the assumption on which it is based add anything to the overall performance?
▪ The overall performance of the system is then about forty to fifty watts per square meter, averaged over day and night.
▪ Only time will tell if this is a serious effort at improving both public sector accountability and overall performance.
▪ Perry and Rubin scored the highest grades for overall performance.
poor
▪ Britain's poor economic performance has been the dominant theme of political debate and economic discourse since the 1950s.
▪ About the Families Investigators have long linked unfavorable family situations with poor academic performance.
▪ Even when monitoring can be done effectively, disciplining employees for poor performance is itself costly.
▪ Tony Armstrong, director of corporate affairs at Northern Rock, defended the company's poor performance.
▪ Poverty depressed the black college-attendance rate, but so did low high school graduation rates and poor performance on standardized tests.
▪ The kind of symptoms; sluggish cars and poor performance.
▪ Some studies suggest that young people who work too much have poorer academic performance.
specific
▪ Under a corporately developed policy, each business is accountable for its specific performance targets.
▪ Indeed, without specific performance consequences, most of us quickly grow cynical.
▪ The basic combination of attitude and power produces a specific performance.
▪ You can not learn team performance without being part of a team that holds itself mutually accountable for achieving specific performance goals.
▪ Where damages are clearly not an adequate remedy, an order for specific performance may be granted.
▪ Use both / and goals that translate across all four levels from purpose to specific performance.
▪ It is open for most of the year, but you need to book well in advance for any specific performance.
▪ No one demanded that people commit to specific performance challenges requiring them to use what they had supposedly learned.
strong
▪ This point is well demonstrated by the strong performance of and the recently acquired business.
▪ Most are still expecting strong performance of the broader markets, but at a more manageable pace.
▪ The chemicals giant's chairman Charles Miller Smith said the strong performance showed its restructuring programme was working.
▪ Format: Varied selections, strong on performance broadcasts.
▪ Guinness, reflecting its strong profits performance, jumped 25p to 597p.
▪ Another government study offered further signs the strong economic performance will continue.
▪ There were strong performances in some of our key business sectors, although theses were offset by poor results elsewhere.
▪ The foodequipment business had a profit margin of 7. 1 % in 1994, with a strong performance from Hobart.
■ NOUN
art
▪ A programme of performance art to be announced with this exhibition.
▪ The most successful of the human oddities, Taylor says, were those who could present their deformities as performance art.
▪ Garner knows about the challenge of performance art.
▪ No matter how he strutted and screamed, the end result was more like watching performance art than hearing a concert.
▪ Some performance art does contain gratuitous violence.
▪ The materials of Fluxus artists were mainly ephemeral or paper-based, or centred on performance art, presenting problems for exhibition organisers.
▪ The second is intensely combative performance art, and just about self-financing.
evening
▪ The audience were in their seats for the first of the two evening performances.
▪ Tickets are $ 10 to $ 32 for the evening performances and $ 6 to $ 20 for the matinee.
▪ Once he did as the Professor had hoped he might do, and gave Paul a ticket for an evening performance.
▪ The evening performance - a Mozart Symphony - didn't start until seven and it would mean a late return home.
▪ The read-through finished at midday to give St Ives a rest before the evening performance of Caesar and Cleopatra.
▪ It gave us a little time together before she dashed off for the evening performance.
▪ The production lasted well over three hours, and then it was soon time to get ready for the evening performance.
indicator
▪ Yet traditional performance indicators provide little to guide investment in knowledge and learning.
▪ Further information was obtained from performance indicators from the Department of Health.
▪ The drive towards numerical and managerial performance indicators has already been mentioned.
▪ The performance indicators which are produced consist mainly of data on payment, which makes useful analysis difficult.
▪ Attendance rates and truancy levels as performance indicators for schools are only part of the story.
▪ We examine performance indicators in more detail in later chapters.
▪ The second innovation was the development of performance indicators.
▪ Some LEAs have long collated information obtained from schools in such a way that the results might be described as performance indicators.
repeat
▪ Darlington beat Huddersfield 1-0 in the Rumbelows League Cup and a repeat performance would improve their chances of survival.
▪ Politicians did not relish a repeat performance of the humiliating defeat they had suffered over the suspension and repeal of the acts.
▪ My next problem was how to get back to the hotel before my stomach gave a repeat performance.
▪ A repeat performance if planned for 2039!
▪ His broadcast of 23 April was a shorter but equally powerful repeat performance of his address at the end of Barricades Week.
▪ But then there was the journey, with its repeat performance of doggy protests.
▪ Waterhole two, in January 1982, was to have been a repeat performance.
▪ Needless to say, I wasn't asked for a repeat performance!
■ VERB
affect
▪ So let us look at what factors appear to affect the performance of individuals in their jobs.
▪ The action occurs in real time, and damage shows on a vehicle and affects its performance.
▪ Fixed-interest securities would be immune at least to some of the difficulties that might affect companies' trading performance.
▪ At first the others joked about it, but their air of exclusivity began to affect team performance.
▪ Dictionaries differ widely in their style and content, and this has been shown to affect recognition performance.
▪ The pressure is usually transmitted to the available servicing personnel affecting their performance.
▪ However, too much or little anxiety will always affect any performance in a detrimental way.
▪ After all, the construction of one motor car may differ from another without affecting its performance.
assess
▪ So for the next few days this column will present several different ways of assessing corporate performance for 1989.
▪ Every year, he reviews the staff and then asks two aides to assess his performance.
▪ Voters are interested in assessing the performance of their elected representatives.
▪ In this chapter we analyse the nationalized industries, explain how they have been run, and assess their performance.
▪ In addition, as argued above, there are great difficulties in assessing the performance of public enterprises.
▪ The children could use a standard proforma to assess their own performance against the relevant parts of the attainment targets.
▪ Who assesses our performance, and how much store do we set by their judgement?
compare
▪ Train arrives at Euston seven minutes late - not bad compared with recent performances, but still late.
▪ Step two of the process is to compare your performance with that of your co-workers.
▪ They compared the performance of two patients on a lip-reading task and on a task which required analysis of facial expression.
▪ They compared performance in two conditions.
▪ It was interesting to compare the performance of my tourer bike and the mountain bikes we hired on these roads.
▪ Instead of using complicated measurements involving colour purity, resolution etc. to compare their performance I simply used each monitor for a day.
enhance
▪ It is continuous, since it is a long-term strategy to enhance individual performance in the context of institutional objectives.
▪ Along with the redesigned case, the L series has lots of new features to enhance performance.
▪ In truth, the most impressive thing about this performance car is the way it enhances the performance of its driver.
▪ Instead, they keep their fingers crossed and spend the money on hardware to enhance performance.
▪ However, it was once again observed that risk only enhances recognition performance in certain situations.
▪ He said: We have solid information that the use of drugs to enhance performance is really an epidemic.
▪ And if your car is fitted with a catalytic converter, Shell Advanced will help enhance the catalyst's performance.
▪ The company has also enhanced the performance of the Series 400 by 30% to 40%.
give
▪ She tells me that unless you are in a state of tension you don't give your best performance.
▪ It gives us the mini-mum performance we need to get off Mars but leaves much room for growth and improvement.
▪ Ge rard Giroudon gives a moving performance as Harpagon.
▪ So that, nomatterwhat they do, they are more or less giving the same performance each time.
▪ WinTach should give you more accurate performance figures.
▪ The response on both left and right was that he gave a lacklustre performance.
▪ The little information that is given on the performance of mature students is not very useful.
improve
▪ As a result it is often difficult to analyse the errors of a probabilistic system in an effort to improve its performance.
▪ Mounting a strong staff development component to help special education staff to improve their performance on the job. 5.
▪ Indeed most people wish to improve their own performance and are eager to do so.
▪ The power of feedback to motivate improved performance is well established.
▪ The new Transport Secretary, Stephen Byers, weighed in with a demand that the industry should improve its performance.
▪ And he will be expected to use that information to improve performance and to help his company attain its strategic goals.
▪ Advanced expert systems provide a means to significantly improve performance in each of these important areas.
▪ By contrast, total quality and continuous improvement concern themselves with improving performance in smaller chunks.
measure
▪ They measure the performance of their agencies, focusing not on inputs but on outcomes.
▪ Mental performance tests By now it might be wondered whether there is any satisfactory way to measure mental performance.
▪ A comparison of different kinds of rocket engines with each other requires some measure of their performance.
▪ The criteria against which to measure success are termed performance indicators.
▪ The managers eventually learned to cope with the ambiguity in measuring their performance.
▪ Results. Measure the performance outcomes that the new skills, behaviors, and working relationships are intended to produce.
monitor
▪ An independent regulatory body should monitor the performance of all operators.
▪ No longer, he said, will we monitor performance using the work standards.
▪ Non-government organisations monitor treaty performance and encourage participation in treaties to which they themselves can not adhere.
▪ Unless managers see the control process through to its conclusion, they are merely monitoring performance rather than exercising control.
▪ Building into such systems the ability to monitor their own performance and adapt appropriately.
▪ Such workers must be able to communicate orally and in writing, work in groups, and monitor their own performance.
▪ Regular reviews of progress will take place and students are asked to carefully monitor their own performance.
▪ And they lacked the information technology we have today to monitor the performance of contractors.
produce
▪ Jaguar produced their best performance of the season, with Eddie Irvine and Pedro de la Rosa finishing seventh and eighth respectively.
▪ That tendency, plus the high dividend yields, usually produces a strong performance.
▪ Nick Mallett produced a staggering performance.
▪ Last year's war in Kosovo produced a more coherent performance.
▪ Simply improving the performance of the pattern recognition module will not produce a recognition performance comparable to that of a human.
▪ The basic combination of attitude and power produces a specific performance.
▪ Further development of polyester-based material has produced even better performance.
▪ However, January did produce one legendary performance, on the rooftop of Apple, to the delight of passers-by.
relate
▪ The level of civic involvement in the 1970s is related to democratic institutional performance in the 1980s.
▪ He was released by the team in a move sources said was related more to performance than to salary cap considerations.
▪ To decide whether previous familiarity with a junction is related to recognition performance it is necessary to calculate new measures of recognition.
▪ B4., try to separate the personality difficulties from the ones directly relating to job performance.
▪ The importance of skill theory is that it relates human performance to systems concepts and to individual differences.
▪ As often as not this was fixed and not related to the performance of the company.
▪ The returns are related to performance, but that is not surprising these days.
▪ This included the publication of specific information relating to environmental performance and emissions data.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
benefit concert/performance/match
▪ Browne played a benefit concert at Zellerbach Hall on the UC-Berkeley campus Thursday night.
▪ He later played a benefit concert in aid of the protest.
▪ Last August, after leaving a rehearsal for the benefit performance, Hicks witnessed a stabbing and wound up being the suspect.
▪ Most significant for a county player was the opportunity to have a benefit match.
▪ This group also organized musicians to play benefit concerts for the campaign.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Have you ever heard a live performance of Beethoven's Seventh Symphony?
▪ It is the first performance of Berlioz's Requiem in this city in over 20 years.
▪ Its performance on mountain roads was impressive.
▪ Some companies link pay to performance.
▪ the performance of his official duties
▪ the disappointing performance of the bond market
▪ The evening performance will begin at 8:00 pm.
▪ The new program will better evaluate the performance of students and teachers.
▪ There are no tickets left for this evening's performance.
▪ There was a performance of "Gisele" in the San Diego State Open Air Theatre.
▪ This evening's performance begins at 8:00 pm.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But the Lakers were up to the task, despite one of the Clippers' better recent performances.
▪ Investors respond to performance and we've not been in existence long enough yet.
▪ Only time will tell if this is a serious effort at improving both public sector accountability and overall performance.
▪ Quick, somebody book a local performance.
▪ Targets may be set for any parameter that can be measured as the project proceeds, such as cost, time and performance.
▪ The school has tried to use technology and writing across subjects to improve students' academic performance.
▪ Three criteria have been chosen, attempting to measure the most important attributes of company performance over the year.