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execution

English

  1. 🔊 the act of accomplishing some aim or executing some order
    “the agency was created for the implementation of the policy”
  2. 🔊 putting a condemned person to death
  3. 🔊 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
  4. 🔊 (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
  5. 🔊 (computer science) the process of carrying out an instruction by a computer
  6. 🔊 the act of performing
    “they criticised his performance as mayor”
  7. 🔊 unlawful premeditated killing of a human being by a human being

Spanish

  1. 🔊 ejecución execution, implementation, implementing (the state of being accomplished)

Similar words

performance carrying out carrying into action murder slaying implementation carrying out executing capital punishment death penalty writ of execution execution of instrument instruction execution accomplished fact accomplishment accordance achievement acquittal acquittance action adherence administration agency angary