EXECUTION
Definition:
- [noun] putting a condemned person to death
Synonyms: executing, capital punishment, death penalty
- [noun] 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"
Synonyms: performance, carrying out, carrying into action
- [noun] (computer science) the process of carrying out an instruction by a computer
Synonyms: instruction
- [noun] (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: of instrument
- [noun] 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
- [noun] the act of accomplishing some aim or executing some order; "the agency was created for the implementation of the policy"
Synonyms: implementation, carrying out
- [noun] unlawful premeditated killing of a human being by a human being
Synonyms: murder, slaying
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Related Words:
- burning, burning at the stake
- hanging
- electrocution, burning
- decapitation, beheading
- crucifixion
- specific performance
- mechanism, mechanics
- officiation
- batch processing
- multiprogramming, concurrent execution
- bloodshed, blood, gore
- contract killing
- parricide
- elimination, liquidation
- slaughter, massacre, mass murder, carnage, butchery
- lynching
- assassination
- dry-gulching
- fratricide
- hit
- infanticide
- shoot-down
- tyrannicide
- thuggee
