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execution
  1. The act, manner or style of executing (actions, maneuvers, performances).
  2. The state of being executed (accomplished).
  3. The act of putting to death or being put to death as a penalty, or actions so associated.
  4. (law) The carrying into effect of a court judgment, or of a will.
  5. (law) The formal process by which a contract is made valid and put into binding effect.
  6. (computing) The carrying out of an instruction, program or program segment by a computer.
  7. Synonyms:
  8. Examples:
    1. “The difference in style and execution of the two deals symbolizes wider contrasts that will filter through to the market as the four companies involved go through their transition periods.”
      “All photo entries will be scored based on their originality, technical execution, and narrative abilities.”
      “They had been summarily tried and sentenced to execution by firing squad before sundown.”
executor
  1. A person who carries out some task.
  2. (law) Someone appointed by a testator to administer a will; an administrator.
  3. (obsolete) An executioner.
  4. Synonyms:
  5. Examples:
    1. “The executor diligently fulfilled the deceased's final wishes as outlined in their will.”
      “The executor of the plan successfully executed the project ahead of schedule.”
      “She named the young man executor of her will and instituted him as the sole and universal heir of her modest estate.”
executioner
  1. An official person who carries out the capital punishment of a criminal.
  2. (archaic) executor
  3. A hit man, especially being in some organization.
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  5. Examples:
    1. “The masked executioner slipped the noose around Shadow's neck and slowly adjusted it to fit.”
      “The executioner shook the condemned man's hands, removed the steps and the platform dropped back on its hinges.”
      “Even the executioner, once an inglorious and shadowy person, became just a regular state employee.”
executive
  1. A title of a chief officer or administrator, especially one who can make significant decisions on their own authority.
  2. That branch of government which is responsible for enforcing laws and judicial decisions, and for the day-to-day administration of the state.
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  4. Examples:
    1. “Did the chief executive ask the senior manager whether such cash payments had been received?”
      “Mr Brown, who has been suspended from his job of general secretary, said he would defend all the charges put to him by the executive of the union.”
executable
  1. (computing) A file that can be run directly by a computer's hardware or a p-code interpreter with no further processing.
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “The system requires the presence of an executable to run the program successfully.”
executant
  1. A person who executes a dance or piece of music; a performer
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “I can best describe this book as a series of masterclasses at which we are, mercifully, not required to put our executant talents under scrutiny.”
      “Still, as executant and chief player on the credits, Scorsese must take the chief responsibility.”
      “When Pachmann plays Chopin the music sings itself, as if without the intervention of an executant, of one who stands between the music and our hearing.”
executress
exec
executability
  1. The extent to which something may be executed.
  2. Examples:
    1. “The executability of his command would depend upon the remaining strength and stamina of the men.”
      “The executability of the file would depend on compatibility with the updated hardware.”
      “He defines his work as software, and that means he's more interested in the executability of a set of instructions than in the final appearance.”
executioneress
  1. (rare) A female executioner.
executorship
  1. the office or position of an executor
  2. Examples:
    1. “It is a legal structure that has been designed to accomplish several desirable goals, two of which are to avoid executorship and paying estate duty.”
      “But surely thou dost not pretend to say what I shall, or shall not do, as to the executorship.”
      “Mr Armstrong found him in an unusually balmy frame of mind, anxious to go into the executorship accounts.”
execx
  1. Abbreviation of executrix.
executer
  1. Alternative form of executor
  2. Examples:
    1. “It was, however, well understood at Athens that the planner and executer of the deed was Demosthenes.”
      “She was the instigator and the executer of the crime against Naboth.”
executour
  1. Obsolete form of executor.
executry
  1. (law) The role of executor.
executrix
  1. (chiefly law) A female executor.
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “Subsequently the executrix discovered that an asset of the deceased had during his life been sold at an undervalue.”
      “By now you will have figured out that I am John's executrix, responsible for overseeing the final closing down of his business and his estate.”
      “By his will dated 8th June 1956 he appointed the Mother to be his executrix and bequeathed all his property whatsoever or wheresoever to her.”
executorships
  1. plural of executorship
executioners
  1. plural of executioner
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “There were interviews with executioners who described the process that was unfolding behind the prison walls.”
      “Near them are statues of the three executioners Bao employed to put different ranks of criminals to death.”
      “The military will act as interrogators, prosecutors, defense counsel, judges, and when death sentences are imposed, as executioners.”
executables
  1. plural of executable
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “The service also blocks pop-ups and accelerates downloads including MP3s and executables.”
      “Be wary of downloading executables or documents from the internet, as these can often harbour computer viruses.”
      “Business users are advised to filter for Windows executables and zip files in their email.”
executresses
  1. plural of executress
executants
  1. plural of executant
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “The topics of these lectures included English composers, English executants, and critics.”
      “The greatest Sienese painters were among their executants, including Duccio and Ambrogio Lorenzetti.”
      “Any survey of that time reads like a roll-call of Germany's most famous composers, conductors and executants.”
executives
  1. plural of executive
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “The two executives who were kidnapped last week are yet to be released by their abductors.”
      “Many accountants made it to the board having previously served as senior executives.”
      “As tensions continue over the company's future, its executives have been abandoning ship at a rapid pace.”
executions
  1. plural of execution
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “By introducing lethal injections, he had hoped to at least make executions more humane.”
      “Instead, there are signs of growing public revulsion over assembly-line executions and rampant police brutality and corruption.”
      “For example, if you oppose executions, the number of people on death row recently cleared by DNA evidence probably alarms you.”
executours
  1. plural of executour
executrices
  1. plural of executrix
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “She is one of the executrices of her late father's estate and the proposal cannot proceed without her concurrence.”
      “Local lawyers have been asked to look at hundreds of executrices of wills, including the court fees paid for processing documents.”
      “She thus conformed to the practice observed by widows in appointing female relatives as executrices or life had taught her to confide more in women than in men.”
executrixes
executers
  1. plural of executer
executors
  1. plural of executor
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “After the war, women increasingly inherited real property and served as executors of men's estates.”
      “Gunawan made the headlines as his case also implicated four Marine officers who were the alleged executors of the fatal shooting.”
      “Generally speaking all persons who are capable of making wills may be executors, and some others beside, as infants and married women.”
executries
  1. plural of executry
execxs
  1. plural of execx
execs
  1. plural of exec
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “Despite such side effects, some record execs have decided that the copy protection scheme is a dandy way to prevent music piracy.”
      “With readers flocking to their Web postings, execs are finding blogs useful for plugging not just their products but their points of view.”
      “Not only teenagers but many high flying execs who flaunt a number of mobiles casually are very poor phone conversationalists.”
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