Usually means: Carries out or performs actions.
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We found 14 dictionaries that define the word executes:

General (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. executes: Merriam-Webster
  2. executes: Collins English Dictionary
  3. executes: Vocabulary.com
  4. Executes, executes: Wordnik
  5. executes: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. executes: Wiktionary
  7. executes: Dictionary.com
  8. executes: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. executes: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. executes: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. executes: Legal dictionary
  3. executes: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. executes: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. executes: Medical dictionary

(Note: See execute as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (execute)

verb:  (transitive) To kill, especially as punishment for a capital crime.
verb:  (transitive) To carry out; to put into effect.
verb:  (transitive) To perform.
verb:  (transitive, law) To carry out, to perform an act; to put into effect or cause to become legally binding or valid (as a contract) by so doing.
verb:  (transitive, computing) To start, launch, or run.
verb:  (intransitive, computing) To run, usually successfully.
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