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execution noun [ ˌɛksɪˈkjuːʃ(ə)n ]

• the carrying out of a plan, order, or course of action.
• "he was fascinated by the entire operation and its execution"
Similar: implementation, carrying out, accomplishment, performance, effecting, bringing off, bringing about, achievement, carrying off, carrying through, completion, enactment, enforcement, discharge, prosecution, engineering, attainment, realization, fulfilment, perpetration,
• the carrying out of a sentence of death on a condemned person.
• "the execution of juveniles is prohibited by international law"
Similar: capital punishment, the death penalty, being put to death, killing, the gibbet, the gallows, the noose, the rope, the scaffold, the guillotine, the firing squad, the (electric) chair, the drop, necktie party, noyade,


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