specific performance

1. 1.

   the performance of a legal contract as specified by its terms

   Broaderperformance

Questions about specific performance

What does specific performance mean?

specific performance means "the performance of a legal contract as specified by its terms".

Is specific performance a common word?

specific performance is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.