ex·e·cu·tion ( k s -ky  sh n)n. 1. a. The act of executing something. b. The state of being executed. 2. The manner, style, or result of performance: The plan was sound; its execution, faulty. 3. The act or an instance of putting to death or being put to death as a lawful penalty. 4. Law a. The carrying into effect of a court judgment. b. A writ empowering an officer to enforce a judgment. c. Validation of a legal document by the performance of all necessary formalities. 5. Archaic Effective, punitive, or destructive action. |
execution
Noun
1. the act of executing
2. the carrying out or undergoing of a sentence of death
3. the manner in which something is performed; technique
Execution of officials: company of officers—Bk. of St. Albans, 1486.
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| Noun | 1. |  execution - putting a condemned person to deathcorporal punishment - the infliction of physical injury on someone convicted of committing a crime burning at the stake, burning - execution by fire hanging - a form of capital punishment; victim is suspended by the neck from a gallows or gibbet until dead; "in those days the hanging of criminals was a public entertainment" electrocution, burning - execution by electricity beheading, decapitation - execution by cutting off the victim's head crucifixion - the act of executing by a method widespread in the ancient world; the victim's hands and feet are bound or nailed to a cross |
| 2. | execution - 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" action - something done (usually as opposed to something said); "there were stories of murders and other unnatural actions" specific performance - the performance of a legal contract as specified by its terms linguistic performance - (linguistics) a speaker's actual use of language in real situations; what the speaker actually says, including grammatical errors and other non-linguistic features such as hesitations and other disfluencies (contrasted with linguistic competence) mechanics, mechanism - the technical aspects of doing something; "a mechanism of social control"; "mechanisms of communication"; "the mechanics of prose style" officiation - the performance of a religious or ceremonial or public duty | |
| 3. | execution - (computer science) the process of carrying out an instruction by a computer physical process, process - a sustained phenomenon or one marked by gradual changes through a series of states; "events now in process"; "the process of calcification begins later for boys than for girls" computer science, computing - the branch of engineering science that studies (with the aid of computers) computable processes and structures batch processing - the serial execution of computer programs data processing - (computer science) a series of operations on data by a computer in order to retrieve or transform or classify information concurrent execution, multiprogramming - the execution of two or more computer programs by a single computer | |
| 4. | 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 subscription - the act of signing your name; writing your signature (as on a document); "the deed was attested by the subscription of his signature" law, jurisprudence - the collection of rules imposed by authority; "civilization presupposes respect for the law"; "the great problem for jurisprudence to allow freedom while enforcing order" | |
| 5. | execution - 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 court order - a writ issued by a court of law requiring a person to do something or to refrain from doing something law, jurisprudence - the collection of rules imposed by authority; "civilization presupposes respect for the law"; "the great problem for jurisprudence to allow freedom while enforcing order" | |
| 6. | execution - the act of accomplishing some aim or executing some order; "the agency was created for the implementation of the policy" enforcement - the act of enforcing; ensuring observance of or obedience to | |
| 7. |  execution - unlawful premeditated killing of a human being by a human beinghomicide - the killing of a human being by another human being assassination - murder of a public figure by surprise attack bloodshed, gore - the shedding of blood resulting in murder; "he avenged the bloodshed of his kinsmen" contract killing - a murder carried out on agreement with a hired killer parricide - the murder of your own father or mother mariticide - the murder of a husband by his wife fratricide - the murder of your sibling uxoricide - the murder of a wife by her husband filicide - the murder of your own son or daughter liquidation, elimination - the murder of a competitor carnage, mass murder, massacre, slaughter, butchery - the savage and excessive killing of many people lynching - putting a person to death by mob action without due process of law regicide - the act of killing a king dry-gulching - the act of killing from ambush hit - a murder carried out by an underworld syndicate; "it has all the earmarks of a Mafia hit" infanticide - murdering an infant shoot-down - murder by shooting someone down in cold blood tyrannicide - killing a tyrant thuggee - murder and robbery by thugs |
execution
noun 1. killing, hanging, the death penalty, the rope, capital punishment, beheading, the electric chair, the guillotine, the noose, the scaffold, electrocution, decapitation, the firing squad, necktie party (informal)
noun 2. carrying out, performance, operation, administration, achievement, effect, prosecution, rendering, discharge, enforcement, implementation, completion, accomplishment, realization, enactment, bringing off, consummation
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