specific performance
noun
1
: the performance of a legal contract strictly or substantially according to its terms
2
: an equitable remedy enjoining specific performance
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The rule could also dictate specific performance measures executives would have to hit and could limit the powers of a board compensation committee in using discretion in adjusting payouts.
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Amanda Gerut, Fortune, 20 May 2024
Tudyk’s weird, physically specific performance remains the series’ biggest draw by far.
—Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 20 May 2024
Perhaps that’s why Back to Black highlights these specific performances in her stacked but ultimately short tenure as a sensational singer.
—Allaire Nuss, EW.com, 18 May 2024
While adjusted pretax profits and cash flow will remain the primary financial performance measures, the plan will also incorporate specific performance measures connected to performance of gasoline vehicles, EVs, AV launches and software and services.
—Jamie L. Lareau, Detroit Free Press, 24 Apr. 2024
Fiber also beat non-fiber in customers' evaluation of specific performance categories, including video-streaming quality, Internet service quality, data transfer speed, outages, and peak hour performance.
—Jon Brodkin, Ars Technica, 6 June 2023
In addition to developing city-specific goals, auditors have asked San Jose to more closely scrutinize specific performance metrics for its nonprofit providers, which operate homeless housing and shelters and do most street outreach.
—Ethan Varian, The Mercury News, 13 Apr. 2024
Yet despite this multiplicity, the nature of its new medium means that an inherently ambiguous character must be fixed to a specific performance, going from passive observer to active presence.
—Alison Herman, Variety, 10 Apr. 2024
San Diego enacted specific performance measures in eight of the 14 projects reviewed; the other projects had undefined goals or no goals at all.
—Jeff McDonald, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Apr. 2024
Amanda Gerut, Fortune, 20 May 2024
Tudyk’s weird, physically specific performance remains the series’ biggest draw by far.
—Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 20 May 2024
Perhaps that’s why Back to Black highlights these specific performances in her stacked but ultimately short tenure as a sensational singer.
—Allaire Nuss, EW.com, 18 May 2024
While adjusted pretax profits and cash flow will remain the primary financial performance measures, the plan will also incorporate specific performance measures connected to performance of gasoline vehicles, EVs, AV launches and software and services.
—Jamie L. Lareau, Detroit Free Press, 24 Apr. 2024
Fiber also beat non-fiber in customers' evaluation of specific performance categories, including video-streaming quality, Internet service quality, data transfer speed, outages, and peak hour performance.
—Jon Brodkin, Ars Technica, 6 June 2023
In addition to developing city-specific goals, auditors have asked San Jose to more closely scrutinize specific performance metrics for its nonprofit providers, which operate homeless housing and shelters and do most street outreach.
—Ethan Varian, The Mercury News, 13 Apr. 2024
Yet despite this multiplicity, the nature of its new medium means that an inherently ambiguous character must be fixed to a specific performance, going from passive observer to active presence.
—Alison Herman, Variety, 10 Apr. 2024
San Diego enacted specific performance measures in eight of the 14 projects reviewed; the other projects had undefined goals or no goals at all.
—Jeff McDonald, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Apr. 2024
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“Specific performance.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/specific%20performance. Accessed 28 May. 2024.
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