Usually means: Carrying out a plan, order.
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General (31 matching dictionaries)
  1. execution: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. execution: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. execution: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. execution: Collins English Dictionary
  5. execution: Vocabulary.com
  6. Execution, execution: Wordnik
  7. execution: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. execution: Wiktionary
  9. execution: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. execution: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. execution: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. execution: Dictionary.com
  13. execution: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. execution: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Execution (The Twilight Zone), Execution (computers), Execution (computing), Execution (disambiguation), Execution (legal), Execution (novel), Execution (painting), Execution, The Execution: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Execution: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. execution: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. execution: Rhymezone
  19. execution: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. execution: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. execution: Free Dictionary
  22. execution: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. execution: Dictionary/thesaurus
  24. execution: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  25. execution: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus

Business (16 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. execution: Law.com Dictionary
  3. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  4. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  5. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  6. Execution: Bloomberg Financial Glossary
  7. Bernstein's Dictionary of Bankruptcy Terminology (No longer online)
  8. Execution: Harvey Financial
  9. Execution: eyefortransport e-commerce transportation glossary
  10. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  11. Execution: Investopedia
  12. Execution: INSOLVENCY
  13. Execution (legal), execution: Legal dictionary
  14. Execution: Financial dictionary
  15. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)
  16. Execution: WashingtonPost.com: Business

Computing (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. execution: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. execution: CCI Computer
  3. Execution (legal), execution: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. execution: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)

(Note: See executions as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  The act, manner or style of executing (actions, maneuvers, performances).
noun:  The state of being accomplished.
noun:  The act of putting to death or being put to death as a penalty, or actions so associated.
noun:  (law) The carrying into effect of a court judgment, or of a will.
noun:  (now rare) Specifically, the seizure of a debtor's goods or property in default of payment.
noun:  (law) The formal process by which a contract is made valid and put into binding effect.
noun:  (computing) The carrying out of an instruction, program or program segment by a computer.

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