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executor
  • n  a person appointed by a testator to carry out the terms of the will
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execution
  • n  putting a condemned person to death
  • n  the act of performing; of doing something successfully; using knowledge as distinguished from merely possessing it
  • n  (computer science) the process of carrying out an instruction by a computer
  • n  (law) the completion of a legal instrument (such as a contract or deed) by signing it (and perhaps sealing and delivering it) so that it becomes legally binding and enforceable
  • n  a routine court order that attempts to enforce the judgment that has been granted to a plaintiff by authorizing a sheriff to carry it out
  • n  the act of accomplishing some aim or executing some order
  • n  unlawful premeditated killing of a human being by a human being
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execution of instrument
  • n  (law) the completion of a legal instrument (such as a contract or deed) by signing it (and perhaps sealing and delivering it) so that it becomes legally binding and enforceable
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execution sale
  • n  a sale of property by the sheriff under authority of a court's writ of execution in order satisfy an unpaid obligation
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execution speed
  • n  (computer science) the speed with which a computational device can execute instructions; measured in MIPS
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executioner
  • n  an official who inflicts capital punishment in pursuit of a warrant
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executive agency
  • n  an agency of the executive branch of government
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executive branch
  • n  the branch of the United States government that is responsible for carrying out the laws
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executive clemency
  • n  the power (usually of a president or governor) to pardon or commute the sentence of someone convicted in that jurisdiction
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