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Defenition of the word execution

    • Defenition of the word execution

      • The act of commiting capital punishment against someone for a certain crime or action
      • The carrying out of an instruction by a computer.
      • the process of carrying out an instruction by a computer
      • putting a condemned person to death
      • the act of accomplishing some aim or executing some order; "the agency was created for the implementation of the policy"
      • the act of doing something successfully; using knowledge as distinguished from merely possessing it; "experience generally improves performance"
      • 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"
      • unlawful premeditated killing of a human being by a human being
      • 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
      • (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
      • (computer science) the process of carrying out an instruction by a computer
      • the act of performing; of doing something successfully; using knowledge as distinguished from merely possessing it
      • the act of accomplishing some aim or executing some order

    Synonyms for the word execution

      • capital punishment
      • carrying into action
      • carrying out
      • death penalty
      • doing
      • executing
      • implementation
      • performance

    Meronymys for the word execution

      • data processing

    Hyponyms for the word execution

      • assassination
      • batch processing
      • beheading
      • blood
      • bloodshed
      • burning
      • burning at the stake
      • butchery
      • carnage
      • concurrent execution
      • contract killing
      • crucifixion
      • decapitation
      • dry-gulching
      • electrocution
      • elimination
      • filicide
      • fratricide
      • gore
      • hanging
      • hit
      • infanticide
      • linguistic performance
      • liquidation
      • lynching
      • mariticide
      • mass murder
      • massacre
      • mechanics
      • mechanism
      • multiprogramming
      • officiation
      • parricide
      • regicide
      • shoot-down
      • slaughter
      • specific performance
      • thuggee
      • tyrannicide
      • uxoricide

    Hypernyms for the word execution

      • action
      • corporal punishment
      • court order
      • enforcement
      • homicide
      • physical process
      • process
      • subscription

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