performance-enhancing
adjective/pəˈfɔːməns ɪnhɑːnsɪŋ/
/pərˈfɔːrməns ɪnhænsɪŋ/
[only before noun]- (used especially about drugs that have been banned from use in sport) that people take so that they will be more successful in a sports competition
- steroids and other performance-enhancing drugs
- The athletes were tested for performance-enhancing drugs.
Oxford Collocations DictionaryPerformance-enhancing is used with these nouns:- drug
- substance
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