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SPECIFIC PERFORMANCE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does specific performance mean?
• SPECIFIC PERFORMANCE (noun)
The noun SPECIFIC PERFORMANCE has 1 sense:
1. the performance of a legal contract as specified by its terms
Familiarity information: SPECIFIC PERFORMANCE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The performance of a legal contract as specified by its terms
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("specific performance" is a kind of...):
carrying into action; carrying out; execution; performance (the act of performing; of doing something successfully; using knowledge as distinguished from merely possessing it)
Context examples
Issue associated with the non-compliance of the device to meet its specific performance characteristics thereby causing a false reading.
(False Reading from Medical Device Non-Compliance, Food and Drug Administration)
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