The phrase "a partial performance" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where someone has completed only a portion of a task or obligation, often in legal or contractual discussions.
Example: "The contractor's failure to deliver the full project on time resulted in a dispute over the value of a partial performance."
Alternatives: "incomplete execution" or "partial fulfillment".
The industrial action isn't a work-to-rule - in which case staff would rightly still expect to be paid - but an example of "partial performance", in which staff refuse to carry out their contracted duties.
Only partial performance triggers a claim for restitution, and partial performance will not, in the ordinary course of events, have been more injurious to the innocent party than total nonperformance.
"Higher education (HE) institutions do not accept partial performance and many will be deducting a full day's pay in order to limit the impact on their students.
A UCEA spokesperson said: "The unions are fully aware of the employers' consistent position regarding withholding pay for partial performance, and that they are entitled to withhold a full day's pay if staff do not work normally.
"The higher education unions are fully aware of the employers' consistent position regarding withholding pay for partial performance, and that they are entitled to withhold a full day's pay if staff do not work normally," he said.
Keele informed staff this week it would withhold 20% of pay for "partial performance" until staff members rescheduled classes and other timetabled student activities cancelled because of strike action.
If, on partial performance, the plaintiff confines himself to the common counts, he excludes by his pleading any claim for what he has not performed, but he does not thereby enhance his deserts for what he has performed; and therefore, in order to obtain complete justice on breach of a profitable bargain, he must resort to a special count.
Absence days are a composite of full-time or part-time work, full or partial work disability, full or partial performance because of illness.
These are mostly partial performances of various of Ives's 20-odd piano studies, along with improvisations on passages from the "Concord" Sonata.
