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1. The act of performing; of doing something successfully; using knowledge as distinguished from merely possessing it
   - performance, carrying out, carrying into action
    
2. The act of accomplishing some aim or executing some order
   "the agency was created for the execution of the policy";
   - implementation, carrying out
    
3. Unlawful premeditated killing of a human being by a human being
   - murder, slaying
    
4. Putting a condemned person to death
   - executing, capital punishment, death penalty
    
5. (computing) the process of carrying out an instruction by a computer
   - instruction execution
    
6. (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
   - execution of instrument
    
7. (law) 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
   - writ of execution

Derived forms: executions

Type of: action, corporal punishment, court order, enforcement, homicide, physical process, process, subscription

Part of: data processing

Encyclopedia: Execution