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English
Etymology
From Old French execution (c.1360), from Latin exsecutiō, an agent noun from exsequor (“to follow out”), from ex (“out”) + sequor (“follow”). Equivalent to execute + -ion.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˌɛk.sɪˈkjuː.ʃən/, (nonstandard) /ˌɛɡ.zɪˈkjuː.ʃən/
- Rhymes: -uːʃən
Noun
execution (countable and uncountable, plural executions)
- The act, manner or style of executing (actions, maneuvers, performances).
a plan that failed in execution
1885, John Ormsby, chapter 1, in Don QuixoteWikisource, volume 1, translation of original by Miguel de Cervantes:Already the poor man saw himself crowned by the might of his arm Emperor of Trebizond at least; and so, led away by the intense enjoyment he found in these pleasant fancies, he set himself forthwith to put his scheme into execution.
- The state of being accomplished.
- Coordinate term: realization
The mission's successful execution lifted the troops' morale.
- The act of putting to death or being put to death as a penalty, or actions so associated.
2009 February 22, Kevin Baker, “Blood on the Street”, in The New York Times Book Review[1], New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 25 January 2021:Efforts to unionize were routinely met with clubbings, shootings, jailings, blacklistings and executions, perpetrated not only by well-armed legions of company goons, but also by police officers, deputies, National Guardsmen and even regular soldiers.
- (law) The carrying into effect of a court judgment, or of a will.
- (now rare) Specifically, the seizure of a debtor's goods or property in default of payment.
1792, Charlotte Smith, Desmond, Broadview, published 2001, page 166:There are two executions in the house, one for sixteen hundred, the other for two thousand three hundred pounds.
- (law) The formal process by which a contract is made valid and put into binding effect.
- (computing) The carrying out of an instruction, program or program segment by a computer.
The entire machine slowed down during the execution of the virus checker.
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Translations
act of executing or the state of being executed
- Afrikaans: uitvoering
- Arabic: تَنْفِيذ m (tanfīḏ)
- Azerbaijani: yerinə yetirmə, əməl (az), icra
- Belarusian: выкана́нне n (vykanánnje), выкана́ньне n (vykanánʹnje)
- Bulgarian: изпълне́ние (bg) n (izpălnénie)
- Catalan: execució (ca) f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 執行 / 执行 (zh) (zhíxíng), 實行 / 实行 (zh) (shíxíng)
- Czech: provedení (cs) n
- Dutch: uitvoering (nl) f
- Finnish: toimeenpano (fi), toteutus (fi), suoritus (fi)
- French: exécution (fr) f
- German: Ausführung (de) f
- Greek: εκτέλεση (el) f (ektélesi)
- Hindi: निष्पादन (hi) m (niṣpādan), अमल (hi) (amal), कार्यान्वयन m (kāryānvayan)
- Hungarian: végrehajtás (hu), kivitelezés (hu), megvalósítás (hu)
- Italian: esecuzione (it)
- Japanese: 実行 (ja) (じっこう, jikkō), 執行 (ja) (しっこう, shikkō)
- Korean: 실행(實行) (ko) (silhaeng), 집행(執行) (ko) (jiphaeng)
- Kurdish:
- Northern Kurdish: bicihanîn (ku) f, encamdan (ku) f
- Latin: functiō f, exsecūtiō f
- Macedonian: извршување (izvršuvanje)
- Persian:
- Iranian Persian: اِجْرا (ejrâ)
- Polish: wykonanie (pl) n, egzekucja (pl) f
- Portuguese: execução (pt) f
- Romanian: execuție (ro) f
- Russian: выполне́ние (ru) n (vypolnénije), исполне́ние (ru) n (ispolnénije)
- Slovak: prevedenie n
- Slovene: izvedba f
- Spanish: ejecución (es) f
- Tagalog: pagpapatupad, pagsasagawa
- Tajik: иҷро (tg) (ijro)
- Turkish: işletim (tr)
- Ottoman Turkish: تطبیق (tatbik)
- Ukrainian: викона́ння (uk) n (vykonánnja) (may be incomplete), ви́конання (uk) n (výkonannja) (may be complete)
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act of putting to death or being put to death as a penalty
- Afrikaans: teregstelling
- Albanian: ekzekutim (sq) m
- Arabic: إِعْدَام m (ʔiʕdām)
- Armenian: մահապատիժ (hy) (mahapatiž)
- Azerbaijani: edam
- Belarusian: ка́ра сме́рцю f (kára smjércju), экзэку́цыя f (ekzekúcyja), расстрэ́л m (rasstrél) (by a firing squad)
- Bulgarian: екзеку́ция (bg) f (ekzekúcija)
- Catalan: execució (ca) f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 處死 / 处死 (zh) (chǔsǐ), 處決 / 处决 (zh) (chǔjué), 死刑 (zh) (sǐxíng)
- Czech: poprava (cs) f
- Danish: henrettelse c
- Dutch: executie (nl), terechtstelling (nl) f, doodstraf (nl)
- Estonian: hukkamine
- Finnish: teloitus (fi)
- French: exécution (fr) f
- Georgian: სიკვდილით დასჯა (siḳvdilit dasǯa)
- German: Hinrichtung (de) f, Exekution (de) f
- Greek: εκτέλεση (el) f (ektélesi)
- Hebrew: הוֹצָאָה לְהוֹרֵג (he) m (hotsaá lehorég)
- Hindi: कार्यान्वयन m (kāryānvayan)
- Hungarian: kivégzés (hu)
- Icelandic: aftaka (is) f, líflát (is) n
- Irish: bású m
- Italian: esecuzione (it)
- Japanese: 死刑 (ja) (しけい, shikei), 死罪 (ja) (しざい, shizai), 処刑 (ja) (しょけい, shokei)
- Kazakh: өлім жазасы (ölim jazası)
- Korean: 사형(死刑) (ko) (sahyeong)
- Kurdish:
- Northern Kurdish: îdam (ku)
- Kyrgyz: өлүм жазасы (ölüm jazası)
- Latin: carnificīna f
- Latvian: sodīšana ar nāvi f, nāves soda izpildīšana f, eksekūcija f
- Lithuanian: egzekucija f
- Macedonian: погубување n (pogubuvanje), егзекуција f (egzekucija)
- Malay: hukuman mati (ms)
- Māori: whakamatenga
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: henrettelse m
- Pashto: اعدام (ps) m (e'dām)
- Persian:
- Dari: اِعْدَام (i'dām)
- Iranian Persian: اِعْدام (e'dâm)
- Polish: egzekucja (pl) f
- Portuguese: execução (pt) f
- Romanian: execuție (ro) f
- Russian: казнь (ru) f (kaznʹ), экзеку́ция (ru) f (ekzɛkúcija), расстре́л (ru) m (rasstrél) (by a firing squad)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: егзеку́ција f
- Latin: egzekúcija (sh) f
- Slovak: poprava f
- Slovene: usmrtitev (sl) f
- Spanish: ejecución (es) f, ajusticiamiento (es) m, suplicio (es) m (not always death)
- Swedish: avrättning (sv) c
- Tagalog: pagpapapatay
- Tajik: эъдом (e'dom), қатл (qatl)
- Turkish: idam (tr), ölüm cezası (tr)
- Ottoman Turkish: سیاست (siyâset)
- Ukrainian: стра́та f (stráta), ка́ра на смерть f (kára na smertʹ), екзеку́ція f (ekzekúcija), ро́зстріл m (rózstril) (by a firing squad)
- Uzbek: qatl etish, oʻldirish (uz), qatl (uz), oʻlim jazosi
- Vietnamese: tử hình (vi)
- Yiddish: עקזעקוציע f (ekzekutsye)
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manner or style of a performance etc carrying into effect of a court judgment, or of a will formal process by which a contract is made valid and put into binding effect carrying out of an instruction by a computer Translations to be checked Further reading
- “execution”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin Eli Smith, editors (1895–1910), “execution”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
Interlingua
Etymology
Derived from English execution, French exécution, Italian esecuzione, Spanish ejecución and Portuguese execução, all from Latin exsecutiō. By surface analysis, execute + -ion.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /eks.e.kuˈt͡sjon/, /-sjon/
Noun
execution (plural executiones)
- execution
Further reading
- Alexander Gode (1951), Interlingua-English: A Dictionary of the International Language, New York: Storm Publishers, →OL
Middle French
Etymology
From Latin execūtiō, an agent noun from exsequor (“follow out”), itself from ex + sequor (“follow”).
Noun
execution f (plural executions)
- execution (act of putting to death or being put to death as a penalty, or actions so associated)
Descendants
Old French
Etymology
From Latin exsecūtiō, an agent noun from exsequor (“follow out”), itself from ex + sequor (“follow”).
Noun
execution oblique singular, f (oblique plural executions, nominative singular execution, nominative plural executions)
- execution (act of putting to death or being put to death as a penalty, or actions so associated)
Descendants
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