top performer

collocation in English

meaningsoftopandperformer

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top
adjective[before noun]
uk
/tɒp/us
/tɑːp/
at the highest part ...
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performer
noun[C]
uk
/pəˈfɔː.mər/us
/pɚˈfɔːr.mɚ/
a person who entertains people by acting, singing, dancing, or ...
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(Definition oftopandperformerfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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The two were considered top performers, but had managed to miss each other for decades, though both were familiar with the other's works.
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With 6.57 seconds in 1986 he was ranked third on the indoor top performers list that season.
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Each year the town features a giant festival of the country music industry's top performers.
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He was one of the top performers at the bench press, vertical jump and the 3-cone drill.
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Both magazines only include the top performers such as top-50, top-100, top-200 etc.
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After 22 games and two goals in his first season, he became thetopperformerof his team.
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Kashif manages to place himself as atopperformerin series.
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He was thetopperformer(weight-wise) in the first season of the show.
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He was thetopperformerin the vertical and broad jumps as well as the shuttle run.
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Whenever a given association is being too flexible in the admission of new members, top performers will use their veto or even leave the association.
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All the top performers are commanding larger salaries; and, incidentially, most of those salaries are internationally rated.
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First, often far too much attention is paid to top performers and first teams.
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But relative to the top performers we have done badly.
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However, towards the end of our top performers' playing careers, we have not encouraged them to become top coaches.
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A distinction should be drawn between low performing employees and top performers, and efforts to retain employees should be targeted at valuable, contributing employees.
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This extreme case of subsidizing funded all college expenses for football players, plus paychecks to top performers.
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Schools that can select top performers are known as super-selective schools.
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The result placed him third in the world on the top performers list that season.
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While such a paper may serve as a useful threshold test, it does not allow ranking of the top performers.
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Each nation compiled a score from their top performers in each of the four disciplines.
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