execution

See also: exécution

English

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execution

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

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IPA ^(key): /ˌɛk.sɪˈkjuː.ʃən/, (nonstandard) /ˌɛɡ.zɪˈkjuː.ʃən/
Audio (US ): (file)
Rhymes: -uːʃən

Noun

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execution (countable and uncountable , plural executions )

The act, manner or style of executing (actions, maneuvers, performances).
- 1885, John Ormsby, chapter 1, in Don Quixote‎^Wikisource, 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 ‎^[1], 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.

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 (izpǎlnénie)
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)

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 (ölım jazasy)
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)

manner or style of a performance etc

Afrikaans: uitvoering
Bulgarian: изпълне́ние (bg) n (izpǎlnénie)
Catalan: execució (ca) f
Czech: provedení (cs) n
Dutch: uitvoering (nl) f
Finnish: toteutus (fi)
Greek: εκτέλεση (el) f (ektélesi)
Kurdish:
Northern Kurdish: bicihanîn (ku) f
Macedonian: исполнување n (ispolnuvanje)
Polish: wykonanie (pl) n
Portuguese: execução (pt) f
Romanian: execuție (ro)
Russian: исполне́ние (ru) n (ispolnénije), те́хника (ru) f (téxnika)
Slovene: izvedba f
Spanish: ejecución (es) f

carrying into effect of a court judgment, or of a will

Afrikaans: uitvoering
Bulgarian: изпълне́ние (bg) n (izpǎlnénie)
Czech: vykonání n
Dutch: tenuitvoerlegging (nl) , uitvoering (nl) f
Finnish: täytäntöönpano (fi) , toimeenpano (fi)
French: exécution (fr) f
German: Ausführung (de) f
Greek: εκτέλεση (el) f (ektélesi)
Hungarian: végrehajtás (hu)
Kurdish:
Northern Kurdish: bicihanîn (ku) f
Macedonian: извршување n (izvršuvanje), исполнување n (ispolnuvanje)
Polish: egzekucja (pl) f
Portuguese: execução (pt) f
Russian: исполне́ние (ru) n (ispolnénije)

formal process by which a contract is made valid and put into binding effect

Finnish: toimeenpano (fi)
Greek: εκτέλεση (el) f (ektélesi)
Kurdish:
Northern Kurdish: bicihanîn (ku) f
Polish: wykonanie (pl) n, egzekucja (pl) f
Portuguese: execução (pt) f
Russian: выполне́ние (ru) n (vypolnénije), исполне́ние (ru) n (ispolnénije)

carrying out of an instruction by a computer

Afrikaans: uitvoering
Bulgarian: изпълне́ние (bg) n (izpǎlnénie)
Czech: provedení (cs) n
Dutch: uitvoering (nl) f
Finnish: suoritus (fi)
French: exécution (fr) f
German: Ausführung (de) f
Greek: εκτέλεση (el) f (ektélesi)
Japanese: 実行 (ja) (じっこう, jikkō)
Korean: 실행(實行) (ko) (silhaeng)
Kurdish:
Northern Kurdish: bicihanîn (ku) f
Macedonian: извршување n (izvršuvanje)
Portuguese: execução (pt) f
Romanian: execuție (ro) f
Russian: выполне́ние (ru) n (vypolnénije)

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Translations to be checked

Albanian: ^{(please verify)} ekzekutim (sq)
Esperanto: ^{(please verify)} ekzekuto
Estonian: ^{(please verify)} täidesaatmine
French: ^{(please verify)} exécution (fr) f
Hebrew: ^{(please verify)} הוצאה להורג (he) f (hotza‘a lahoreg)
Hindi: ^{(please verify)} सम्पादन करना (sampādan karnā) ^{(please verify)} आचरण (hi) (ācraṇ)
Indonesian: ^{(please verify)} persembahan (id)
Italian: ^{(please verify)} esecuzione (it) f
Kurdish:
Northern Kurdish: ^{(please verify)} îdam (ku) , ^{(please verify)} daliqandin (ku) , ^{(please verify)} şenqkirin (ku) , ^{(please verify)} sêdarekirin (ku)
Marathi: ^{(please verify)} अंमलबजाबणी (ammalbajābṇī)
Mongolian: ^{(please verify)} гүйцэтгэл (mn) (güjcetgel)
Norwegian:
Bokmål: ^{(please verify)} utførelse
Romanian: ^{(please verify)} executare (ro)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: ^{(please verify)} извршавање n

Latin: ^{(please verify)} izvršavanje (sh) n
Slovak: ^{(please verify)} exekúcia f
Swahili: ^{(please verify)} ufanyaji
Swedish: ^{(please verify)} avrättning (sv) c
Tagalog: ^{(please verify)} bitay
Thai: ^{(please verify)} การบังคับตามกฎหมาย (gaan bang-káp dtaam gòt măai)
Turkish: ^{(please verify)} infaz (tr)
Ukrainian: ^{(please verify)} викона́ння (uk) f (vykonánnja)
Vietnamese: ^{(please verify)} sự thực hiện
Welsh: ^{(please verify)} dienyddiad
Yiddish: ^{(please verify)} אויספֿירונג f (oysfirung)

Interlingua

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Etymology

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Derived from English execution , French exécution , Italian esecuzione , Spanish ejecución and Portuguese execução , all from Latin exsecutiō . By surface analysis, execute +‎ -ion .

Pronunciation

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IPA ^(key): /eks.e.kuˈt͡sjon/, /-sjon/

Noun

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execution (plural executiones )

execution

Middle French

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Etymology

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From Latin execūtiō , an agent noun from exsequor ("follow out"), itself from ex + sequor ("follow").

Noun

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execution f (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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French exécution

Old French

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Etymology

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From Latin exsecūtiō , an agent noun from exsequor ("follow out"), itself from ex + sequor ("follow").

Noun

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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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→ English: execution
French exécution

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