English-Danish translations for performance

• forestilling
  Helt ærligt, så var det en ynkelig forestilling ved trepartsmødet at nå til enighed om denne afgørelse, der kun drejer sig om et mindre beløb. Quite frankly, it was a pathetic performance on that trialogue to get a conclusion to this decision, which really involved a small amount of money.
  Jeg har med forfærdelse hørt, at en planlagt forestilling i Rumænien i april er blevet aflyst efter pres fra den kinesiske regering. I was appalled to learn this evening that a planned performance in Romania in April had been cancelled because of pressure from the Chinese Government.
  Jeg foreslår formanden, hr. Buzek, at vi råder bod på dette ved at invitere Shen Yun til at give en forestilling i Parlamentet så hurtigt som muligt. I would like to suggest to the President, Mr Buzek, that we redress the situation by inviting Shen Yun to stage a sample performance in the Parliament at the earliest convenient date.

Definition of performance

• The act of performing; carrying into execution or action; execution; achievement; accomplishment; representation by action
• That which is performed or accomplished; a thing done or carried through; an achievement; a deed; an act; a feat; especially, an action of an elaborate or public character
• The amount of useful work accomplished estimated in terms of time needed, resources used, etc
• The actual use of language in concrete situations by native speakers of a language, as opposed to the system of linguistic knowledge they possess , cf. :w:linguistic performance

Examples

• the performance of an undertaking or a duty
• Better performance means more work accomplished in shorter time and/or using fewer resources

Related words

• high-performance
• nonperformance
• underperformance
• reperformance
• non-performance
• performance appraisal
• performance metric
• performance art
• performance bond