Usually means: Execute an action or task.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. perform: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. perform: Merriam-Webster
  3. perform: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. perform: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. perform: Collins English Dictionary
  6. perform: Vocabulary.com
  7. Perform, perform: Wordnik
  8. perform: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. perform: Wiktionary
  10. perform: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. perform: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. perform: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. perform: Dictionary.com
  14. perform: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. PerForm, Perform: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Perform: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. perform: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. perform: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. perform: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. perform: FreeDictionary.org
  21. perform: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. perform: TheFreeDictionary.com
  23. perform: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  24. perform: Rhymezone
  25. perform: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary (No longer online)

Business (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. perform: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. perform: Law.com Dictionary
  3. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  4. perform: Legal dictionary
  5. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. PERFORM: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. perform: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. PERFORM: Acronym Finder
  2. perform: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. perform: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

(Note: See performability as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (transitive) To do (something); to execute.
verb:  (intransitive) To exhibit an expected pattern of behavior; to function; to work.
verb:  (sexology, uncommon) Of a man, to be able to initiate or fulfill an act of sexual intercourse.
verb:  (law) To act in a way set forth in a contract.
verb:  (transitive) To act in accordance with (a contract); to fulfill one’s terms of (a contract).
verb:  (intransitive) To fulfill contractually agreed-to terms.
verb:  (ambitransitive) To do (something) in front of an audience, such as acting or music, often in order to entertain.
verb:  (by extension, transitive) To behave theatrically so as to give the impression of (a quality, character trait, etc.); to feign.
verb:  (social sciences) Of a social actor, to behave in certain ways.
verb:  (transitive) To behave in accordance with, and thereby in turn shape, (a social notion or role).
verb:  (intransitive) To behave in ways that carry meaning in social contexts.

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