execution

noun7

1. •
   The state of being accomplished.

   • The mission's successful execution lifted the troops' morale.
2. •
   the killing of a prisoner by the state as a punishment for a crime
3. •
   The carrying into effect of a court judgment, or of a will.
4. •
   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.
5. •
   The act, manner or style of executing (actions, maneuvers, performances).
6. •
   The formal process by which a contract is made valid and put into binding effect.
7. •
   (no longer used) Specifically, the seizure of a debtor's goods or property in default of payment.

   • There are two executions in the house, one for sixteen hundred, the other for two thousand three hundred pounds. — 1792