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performing

verbnouncommon in dialogue

  • United Kingdom//pəˈfɔːmɪŋ//
  • United States//pɚˈfɔɹmɪŋ//

A performance.

verb

  1. 1

    Also a form of performpresent participle and gerund of perform

    The greatest recovery was recorded by London Overground, where the level of journeys was at 55.9% of that recorded two years previously. ScotRail (32.2%) was the lowest-performing operator.

Etymology

From perform + -ing.

noun

  1. 1

    A performance.

    Yet the misfortune of his life, his vast attempts but most inadequate performings, failing to accomplish any one masterpiece, seems to mark the closing of an era.

Forms

plural
performings
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).