noun
- Putting a condemned person to death.
- synonyms: executing, capital punishment, death penalty
- The act of performing; of doing something successfully; using knowledge as distinguished from merely possessing it.
- usage: "they criticised his performance as mayor"; "experience generally improves performance"
- synonyms: performance, carrying out, carrying into action
- Computer science. ( the process of carrying out an instruction by a computer)
- synonyms: instruction execution
- 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)
- synonyms: execution of instrument
- 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.
- synonyms: writ of execution
- The act of accomplishing some aim or executing some order.
- usage: "the agency was created for the implementation of the policy"
- synonyms: implementation, carrying out
- Unlawful premeditated killing of a human being by a human being.
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