performance execution carrying out carrying into action | the act of performing, of doing something successfully, using knowledge as distinguished from merely possessing it, they criticised his performance as mayor, experience generally improves performance |
murder slaying execution | unlawful premeditated killing of a human being by a human being |
execution implementation carrying out | the act of accomplishing some aim or executing some order, the agency was created for the implementation of the policy |
execution executing capital punishment death penalty | putting a condemned person to death |
summary judgment summary judgement judgment on the pleadings judgement on the pleadings | a judgment rendered by the court prior to a verdict because no material issue of fact exists and one party or the other is entitled to a judgment as a matter of law |
instrument of execution | an instrument designed and used to take the life of a condemned person |
execution speed | (computer science) the speed with which a computational device can execute instructions, measured in MIPS |
summary sum-up | a brief statement that presents the main points in a concise form, he gave a summary of the conclusions |
sheriff's sale execution sale judicial sale forced sale | a sale of property by the sheriff under authority of a court's writ of execution in order satisfy an unpaid obligation |
stay of execution | an order whereby a judgment is precluded from being executed for a specific period of time |
execution writ of execution | 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 |
execution execution of instrument | (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 |
short shrift summary treatment | a brief and unsympathetic rejection, they made short shrift of my request |
execution instruction execution | (computer science) the process of carrying out an instruction by a computer |
multiprogramming concurrent execution | the execution of two or more computer programs by a single computer |
compendious compact succinct summary | briefly giving the gist of something, a short and compendious book, a compact style is brief and pithy, succinct comparisons, a summary formulation of a wide-ranging subject |
drumhead summary | performed speedily and without formality, a summary execution, summary justice |