Thesaurus: execution

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1. n. The act of executing; a carrying into effect or to completion; performance; achievement; consummation; as, the execution of a plan, a work, etc.
2. n. A putting to death as a legal penalty; death lawfully inflicted; as, the execution of a murderer.
3. n. The act of the mode of performing a work of art, of performing on an instrument, of engraving, etc.; as, the execution of a statue, painting, or piece of music.
4. n. The carrying into effect the judgment given in a court of law.
5. n. A judicial writ by which an officer is empowered to carry a judgment into effect; final process.
6. n. The act of signing, and delivering a legal instrument, or giving it the forms required to render it valid; as, the execution of a deed, or a will.
7. n. That which is executed or accomplished; effect; effective work; -- usually with do.
8. n. The act of sacking a town.
9. n. putting a condemned person to death
10. n. the act of performing; of doing something successfully; using knowledge as distinguished from merely possessing it
11. n. (computer science) the process of carrying out an instruction by a computer
12. n. (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