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verb
1 ENTERTAIN [I,T] to entertain people by acting, singing, dancing, etc
She has performed all over the world.
The orchestra will perform music by Mozart.

2 DO [T] FORMAL to do a job or a piece of work
In the future, many tasks will be performed by robots.
Surgeons performed the operation in less than two hours.

3 perform well/badly, etc If something performs well, badly, etc, it works that way.
These cars perform poorly at high speeds.

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