Synonyms: 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
Similar words: action
Definition: something done (usually as opposed to something said)
Usage: there were stories of murders and other unnatural actions
Synonyms: execution, slaying, murder
Definition: unlawful premeditated killing of a human being by a human being
Similar words: homicide
Definition: the killing of a human being by another human being
Synonyms: 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
Similar words: enforcement
Definition: the act of enforcing; ensuring observance of or obedience to
Synonyms: death penalty, executing, execution, capital punishment
Definition: putting a condemned person to death
Similar words: corporal punishment
Definition: the infliction of physical injury on someone convicted of committing a crime
Synonyms: 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
Similar words: court order
Definition: a writ issued by a court of law requiring a person to do something or to refrain from doing something
Synonyms: 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
Similar words: subscription
Definition: the act of signing your name; writing your signature (as on a document)
Usage: the deed was attested by the subscription of his signature
Synonyms: execution, instruction execution
Definition: (computer science) the process of carrying out an instruction by a computer
Similar words: physical process, process
Definition: a sustained phenomenon or one marked by gradual changes through a series of states
Usage: events now in process; the process of calcification begins later for boys than for girls