Execution (Noun)
Meaning 1
Unlawful premeditated killing of a human being by a human being.
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Nouns denoting acts or actions.
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- Mariticide
- Parricide
- Assassination
- Tyrannicide
- Infanticide
- Thuggee
- Filicide
- Slaughter
- Regicide
- Carnage
- Hit
- Liquidation
- Bloodshed
- Elimination
- Fratricide
- Butchery
- Shoot-down
- Uxoricide
- Gore
- Contract Killing
- Dry-gulching
- Massacre
- Lynching
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Meaning 2
The act of performing; of doing something successfully; using knowledge as distinguished from merely possessing it; "they criticised his performance as mayor"; "experience generally improves performance".
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Meaning 3
Putting a condemned person to death.
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Nouns denoting acts or actions.
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- The governor denied the prisoner's appeal for clemency, paving the way for the execution to proceed as scheduled.
- The execution was carried out by lethal injection, a method that had been used in the state for over a decade.
- The family of the victim attended the execution, seeking closure after years of waiting for justice.
- The execution was widely criticized by human rights groups, who argued that the defendant had not received a fair trial.
- The warden oversaw the execution, ensuring that it was carried out in accordance with state protocol.
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Meaning 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.
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Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents.
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Meaning 5
The act of accomplishing some aim or executing some order; "the agency was created for the implementation of the policy".
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Nouns denoting acts or actions.
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Meaning 6
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.
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Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents.
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Meaning 7
(computer science) the process of carrying out an instruction by a computer.
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Nouns denoting natural processes.