execution
- noun
- /ˌɛksɪˈkjuːʃən/
- The team focused on the execution of their project plan to meet the tight deadline.
- planning and execution
- design and execution
- successful execution
See, that's the execution part of the plan.
- See, that's the execution part of the plan.
- He just knew his execution was, it was so efficient.
- It's because the execution of their business plan.
- And I have mad respect for the executions that I see with skateboards.
- I didn't love the execution and I can elaborate on that.
- I mean, everything was perfect form, perfect execution, you know, on time.
- Oh yes, yes, correction, only execution matters now.
- I think people not mapping their execution to their ambition.
- That level of execution brought him massive success.
- And for a while the execution doesn't match the authenticity of the feeling.
- He said a feeble executive implies A feeble execution of the government.
- And so you have the three parts, it's reflection, execution and planning.
- They invest into ideas that have execution attached to it.
Examples
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Some of the interventions were also modeled in order to ensure the successful execution of the strategies.
Academic text (2013) -
The time from idea to execution can take forever.
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The most important thing about the phase of execution is to get started.
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That level of execution brought him massive success.
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And it's in the execution that so many people break.
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See, that's the execution part of the plan.
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Parallelism, the execution of multiple tasks at the same time, is fundamental in computer design.
Academic text (2011) -
It was designed with good intentions, yet flaws and execution put patients at risk.
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Kate's sudden illness was, to say the least, detrimental to the execution of our plan.
Fiction book (2002) -
Effective execution of the marketing strategy led to a significant increase in sales.
Synonyms
To put a plan or decision into action
The act of doing a task or plan that someone asked to be done
Antonyms
Compounds
- Formal
An official order by a court that temporarily stops a punishment, for example a death sentence
- Formal
A court order that lets an officer take and sell someone's property to pay money ordered by the court
- Formal
The act of signing a legal document so it becomes legally binding
- Offensive
A planned killing of someone at close range in a controlled way
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Morphology
Etymology
Execution comes from the Latin parts ex- ('out') and sequi ('to follow'), which together mean 'follow out' or 'carry something out', and it is the same root as sequence. So to execute a plan is to follow it through and make it happen.