execution - Similar and Opposite Words

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Noun

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

Synonyms

• carrying into action
• carrying out
• execution
• performance

More generic

• action

More specific

• linguistic performance
• mechanics
• mechanism
• officiation
• specific performance

Noun

unlawful premeditated killing of a human being by a human being

Synonyms

• execution
• murder
• slaying

More generic

• homicide

More specific

• assassination
• bloodshed
• butchery
• carnage
• contract killing
• dry-gulching
• elimination
• filicide
• fratricide
• gore
• hit
• infanticide
• liquidation
• lynching
• mariticide
• mass murder
• massacre
• parricide
• regicide
• shoot-down
• slaughter
• thuggee
• tyrannicide
• uxoricide

Noun

the act of accomplishing some aim or executing some order

Synonyms

• carrying out
• execution
• implementation

More generic

• enforcement

Noun

putting a condemned person to death

Synonyms

• capital punishment
• death penalty
• executing
• execution

More generic

• corporal punishment

More specific

• beheading
• burning
• burning at the stake
• crucifixion
• decapitation
• electrocution
• hanging

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

Synonyms

• execution
• writ of execution

More generic

• court order

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

Synonyms

• execution
• execution of instrument

More generic

• subscription

Noun

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

Synonyms

• execution
• instruction execution

More generic

• physical process
• process

More specific

• batch processing
• concurrent execution
• multiprogramming

Related

• data processing

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