execution

What does execution mean?

• noun

  putting a condemned person to death

• noun

  (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

• noun

  the act of accomplishing some aim or executing some order

• noun

  the act of performing; of doing something successfully; using knowledge as distinguished from merely possessing it

• noun

  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

• noun

  unlawful premeditated killing of a human being by a human being

• noun

  (computer science) the process of carrying out an instruction by a computer

Anagrams of execution