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1.
A ~ of a play, poem, or piece of music is a performance of it.
...a ~ of Verdi’s Requiem by the BBC Symphony Orchestra.
= performance
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2.
A ~ of an expression or piece of writing or speech is a translation of it.
This phrase may well have been a ~ of a popular Arabic expression.
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