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execution

execution

88 4.2
Carrying out a plan or task to get a result
  • noun
  • /ˌɛksɪˈkjuːʃən/
translation icon : ejecución
  • 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.

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Examples

  • 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.

  • The most important thing about the phase of execution is to get started.

  • That level of execution brought him massive success.

  • And it's in the execution that so many people break.

  • See, that's the execution part of the plan.

  • 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.

  • 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

implementation
vsexecution
149 3.8

To put a plan or decision into action

is about performing tasks and actions to reach the desired outcome
carrying out
vsexecution
62 3.0

The act of doing a task or plan that someone asked to be done

is the broader notion of completing processes to achieve a planned result

Antonyms

557 1.3

Not reaching what was planned or expected

26 3.6

Leaving someone or something and not coming back

Compounds

11 8.9

An official order by a court that temporarily stops a punishment, for example a death sentence

execution speed
  • Specialized
1 4.9

How fast a computer or processor runs instructions

1 9.9

A court order that lets an officer take and sell someone's property to pay money ordered by the court

concurrent execution
  • Specialized
6.7

Two or more programs run at the same time on one computer

The act of signing a legal document so it becomes legally binding

9.0

A public sale of a person's property ordered by a court to pay a debt

9.8

A planned killing of someone at close range in a controlled way

instruction execution
  • Specialized
6.7

The steps a computer takes to carry out a command

A tool used by the state to put a person to death

How Well

mastery
37 4.2
accomplishment
184 3.4
execution
88 4.2
performance
637 2.5
attempt
1.0

Surface Forms

execution singular
executions plural

Morphology

execution = execute (transparent) = execute + ion

Standard nominalization from the verb 'execute' meaning 'to carry out', so the sense is directly derived.

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.