Definitions for execution

Definitions for (noun) execution

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


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