Definition of "perform" []

• To begin and carry through to completion; do: The surgeon performed the operation. (verb-transitive)
• To take action in accordance with the requirements of; fulfill: perform one's contractual obligations. (verb-transitive)
• To enact (a feat or role) before an audience. (verb-transitive)
• To give a public presentation of; present: My theater group performed a three-act play. (verb-transitive)
• To carry on; function: a car that performs well on curves. (verb-intransitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "Getting up early is one of the intelligent daily practices that Leaders Without a Title perform with acute consistency."
• "They spent the fall touring behind their election-themed single "All Good Reasons" and were asked to play the Obama campaign official pre-debate rally in New York; it's not often a band of 20-somethings without a label perform on a main stage sandwiched between sets by"
• "I constantly make the argument on my blog that almost all work we now perform is unnecessary, but it never occurred to me, until that discussion, that this also means there a few consequences to a withdrawal from work entirely."