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[ noun ] the act of performing; of doing something successfully; using knowledge as distinguished from merely possessing it

Examples

"they criticised his performance as mayor" "experience generally improves performance"

Used in print

(Frank Oppenheimer, "Science and Fear-- A Discussion...)

We , in our country , think_of war as an external threat which , if it occurs , will not be primarily of our own doing .

(J. H. Hexter, "Thomas More: On the Margins...)

Similar literary exercises were the common doings of a Christian humanist of the first two decades of the sixteenth century .

(W. H. Gass, "The Pedersen Kid," in The...)

I guess fooling Hans and me took doing .

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