Definition of execution
1
: the act or process of executing : performance
2
: a putting to death especially as a legal penalty
3
: the process of enforcing a legal judgment (as against a debtor)
also
: a judicial writ directing such enforcement
4
: the act or mode or result of performance
5
archaic
: effective or destructive action
his brandished steel, which smoked with bloody execution— William Shakespeare
—usually used with do as soon as day came, we went out to see what execution we had done— Daniel Defoe
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The first known use of execution was in the 14th century
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