Main entry: performance, carrying into action, carrying out, execution
Definition: 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
Main entry: execution, slaying, murder
Definition: unlawful premeditated killing of a human being by a human being
Main entry: carrying out, execution, implementation
Definition: the act of accomplishing some aim or executing some order
Usage: the agency was created for the implementation of the policy
Main entry: death penalty, executing, execution, capital punishment
Definition: putting a condemned person to death
Main entry: writ of execution, execution
Definition: 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
Main entry: execution, execution of instrument
Definition: (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
Main entry: execution, instruction execution
Definition: (computer science) the process of carrying out an instruction by a computer