'Execution' definitions:
Definition of 'execution'
(from WordNet)
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The act of performing; of doing something successfully; using knowledge as distinguished from merely possessing it; "they criticised his performance as mayor"; "experience generally improves performance" [syn: performance, execution, carrying out, carrying into action]
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(computer science) the process of carrying out an instruction by a computer [syn: execution, instruction execution]
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(law) the completion of a legal instrument (such as a contract or deed) by signing it (and perhaps sealing and delivering it) so that it becomes legally binding and enforceable [syn: execution, execution of instrument]
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A routine court order that attempts to enforce the judgment that has been granted to a plaintiff by authorizing a sheriff to carry it out [syn: execution, writ of execution]
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The act of accomplishing some aim or executing some order; "the agency was created for the implementation of the policy" [syn: execution, implementation, carrying out]
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Definition of 'Execution'
From: GCIDE
- Execution \Ex`e*cu"tion\, n. [F. ex['e]cution, L. executio, exsecutio.]
- 1. The act of executing; a carrying into effect or to completion; performance; achievement; consummation; as, the execution of a plan, a work, etc. [1913 Webster]
- The excellence of the subject contributed much to the happiness of the execution. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
- 2. A putting to death as a legal penalty; death lawfully inflicted; as, the execution of a murderer; to grant a stay of execution. [1913 Webster]
- A warrant for his execution. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 3. The act of the mode of performing a work of art, of performing on an instrument, of engraving, etc.; as, the execution of a statue, painting, or piece of music. [1913 Webster]
- The first quality of execution is truth. --Ruskin. [1913 Webster]
- 4. The mode of performing any activity; as, the game plan was excellent, but its execution was filled with mistakes. [PJC]
- 5. (Law) (a) The carrying into effect the judgment given in a court of law. (b) A judicial writ by which an officer is empowered to carry a judgment into effect; final process. (c) The act of signing, and delivering a legal instrument, or giving it the forms required to render it valid; as, the execution of a deed, or a will. [1913 Webster]
- 6. That which is executed or accomplished; effect; effective work; -- usually with do. [1913 Webster]
- To do some fatal execution. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 7. The act of sacking a town. [Obs.] --Beau. & FL. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'execution'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- accomplished fact,
- accomplishment,
- accordance,
- achievement,
- acquittal,
- acquittance,
- action,
- adherence,
- administration,
- agency,
- angary,
- annexation,
- annexure,
- approach,
- art,
- assassination,
- attachment,
- attainment,
- ax,
- bane,
- beheading,
- block,
- blood,
- bloodletting,
- bloodshed,
- braining,
- bringing to fruition,
- burning,
- cantando,
- capital punishment,
- care,
- carrying out,
- collectivization,
- commandeering,
- commission,
- communalization,
- communization,
- completion,
- compliance,
- conduct,
- confiscation,
- conformance,
- conformity,
- consummation,
- cross,
- crucifixion,
- dealing death,
- death chair,
- death chamber,
- decapitation,
- decollation,
- defenestration,
- delivery,
- demilegato,
- destruction,
- destruction of life,
- direction,
- discharge,
- dispatch,
- distraint,
- distress,
- doing,
- driving,
- drop,
- effectuation,
- electric chair,
- electrocution,
- eminent domain,
- enactment,
- enforcement,
- euthanasia,
- exercise,
- expression,
- expropriation,
- extermination,
- fait accompli,
- fingering,
- flow of blood,
- fruition,
- fulfillment,
- functioning,
- fusillade,
- gallows,
- gallows-tree,
- garnishment,
- garrote,
- gas chamber,
- gassing,
- gibbet,
- glissando,
- gore,
- guillotine,
- halter,
- handling,
- hanging,
- heed,
- heeding,
- hemlock,
- hemp,
- hempen collar,
- hot seat,
- immolation,
- implementation,
- impoundment,
- impressment,
- intonation,
- judicial murder,
- keeping,
- kill,
- killing,
- lapidation,
- legato,
- lethal chamber,
- levy,
- liquidation,
- maiden,
- management,
- manipulation,
- manner,
- martyrdom,
- martyrization,
- mastery,
- mercy killing,
- mezzo staccato,
- mission accomplished,
- mode,
- murder,
- music-making,
- nationalization,
- necktie party,
- noose,
- observance,
- observation,
- occupation,
- operancy,
- operation,
- overproduction,
- parlando,
- performance,
- performing,
- perpetration,
- pianism,
- pizzicato,
- poisoning,
- practice,
- production,
- productiveness,
- prosecution,
- pursuance,
- realization,
- removal,
- rendering,
- rendition,
- repercussion,
- respect,
- responsibility,
- right of angary,
- ritual killing,
- ritual murder,
- rope,
- rubato,
- running,
- sacrifice,
- satisfaction,
- scaffold,
- sequestration,
- shooting,
- skill,
- slaughter,
- slaying,
- slur,
- socialization,
- spiccato,
- staccato,
- stake,
- steering,
- stoning,
- strangling,
- strangulation,
- style,
- success,
- taking of life,
- technique,
- the ax,
- the block,
- the chair,
- the gallows,
- the gas chamber,
- the guillotine,
- the hot seat,
- the rope,
- touch,
- transaction,
- tree,
- work,
- working,
- workings
Words containing 'Execution'
- Executable,
- Executant,
- Execute,
- Executed,
- Executer,
- Executing,
- Executive,
- Executively,
- executability,
- Executive council,
- Life of an execution,
- Service of an execution,
- To serve an execution,
- account executive,
- business executive,
- chief executive,
- concurrent execution,
- corporate executive,
- execution of instrument,
- execution sale,
- execution speed,
- executive agency,
- executive branch,
- executive clemency,
- executive department,
- executive director,
- executive officer,
- executive program,
- executive routine,
- executive secretary,
- executive session,
- instruction execution,
- instrument of execution,
- stay of execution,
- top executive,
- writ of execution,
- chief executive officer,
- executive office of the president,
- executive vice president