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单词 non-performance
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non-performancen.

Brit. /ˌnɒnpəˈfɔːməns/, U.S. /ˌnɑnpərˈfɔrm(ə)ns/
Forms: see non- prefix and performance n.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: non- prefix, performance n.
Etymology: < non- prefix + performance n.
Failure or neglect to perform or fulfil a condition, promise, etc.; failure to perform well, as required, or in keeping with expectations; (also) the state of not being performed.
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the world > action or operation > inaction > not doing > [noun] > non-performance or non-execution
non-performing1444
non-execution1473
non-performance1509
undoing1587
unperformance1608
abortion1610
failure1643
unperforming1645
inexecution1681
disfulfilment1823
insolvency1896
slippage1920
1509–10 Act 1 Hen. VIII c. 19 Preamble For nonperfourmance of the said condicions.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Winter's Tale (1623) i. ii. 263 Fearefull To doe a thing, where I the issue doubted, Whereof the execution did cry out Against the non-performance . View more context for this quotation
1635 T. Jackson Humiliation Sonne of God viii. vii. 68 His non-performances of what hee often seriously intended.
1751 T. Smollett Peregrine Pickle III. xcii. 284 It would be a meritorious action to put the rascal to the proof, and then toss him in a blanket for non-performance.
1790 Amer. State Papers (1833) I. 124 Delay is always a kind of breach, since, as long as it lasts, it is the non-performance of stipulations.
1807 W. H. Ireland All Blocks 32 A bond containing a penalty for the performance of any thing; therefore, a duchy was the price which, in case of non-performance of stipulations, is to revert back to the original donor.
1827 J. Bentham Rationale Judicial Evid. II. iii. xiv. 306 The performance or non-performance of the ceremony called swearing, or taking an oath.
1881 Amer. Naturalist 15 323 A penalty might be attached for the non-performance of work ordered by such committee, as in the case of all other laws requiring work for the common good.
1908 H. James Portrait of Lady (rev. ed.) II. xxxv. 86 What penalties for non-performance she dreaded.
1973 N.Y. Law Jrnl. 31 Aug. 3/1 It has long been the law in this state that if the damage presumed to result from nonperformance is uncertain and incapable of ascertainment, the sum fixed by the parties is deemed to be liquidated damages.
1990 D. Shekerjian Uncommon Genius iii. xii. 188 The slights eat at him: nonperformance of his works by orchestras season after season, conductors who represent for him the anti-Christ, little recognition.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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