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ex·e·cute /ˈeksəkjuːt/ verb [transitiveT]

1 kill SB 杀死某人SCCKILL to kill someone, especially legally as a punishment 〔尤指依法〕将…处死

execute somebody for something

Thousands have been executed for political crimes.

数以千计的人因政治罪而被处死了。

13 people were summarily executed (=killed without any trial or legal process) by the guerrillas.

有13人被游击队员就地处决。

► see thesaurus at kill

2 do STH 做某事 formalDO to do something that has been carefully planned 实行；执行 SYN implement

The job involves drawing up and executing a plan of nursing care.

这项工作包括拟订和实施一个护理计划。

3 perform an action 做动作 formalDO to perform a difficult action or movement 完成，表演〔高难度动作〕

beautifully/skilfully/poorly etc executed

The skaters’ routine was perfectly executed.

滑冰选手把整套动作完成得非常出色。

4. computer 计算机 technical if a computer executes a program or command (=instruction), it makes the program or command happen or work 执行〔计算机程序或指令〕

5. legal document 法律文件 lawSCLMX to make sure that the instructions in a legal document are followed 执行〔法律文件〕

6 produce STH 制作某物 formalAVP to produce a painting, book, film etc 创作〔绘画、文字、电影作品等〕

a boldly executed story

大胆创作的故事

Examples from the Corpus

execute• According to police sources, many of the dead were civilians who had been tortured before being executed.• Hundreds of officers were arrested, tortured and executed.• The goal of landing people on Mars will not be an easy one to execute.• The show's dance routines were well executed.• The two young men spent 6 months in jail waiting to be executed.• Making it happen means involving the hearts and minds of those who have to execute and deliver.• This is a backward and cruel society, in which people are executed for homosexuality and adultery.• California has executed four San Quentin inmates since the death penalty was reinstated in 1978, the last two by lethal injection.• No federal prisoner has been executed in 37 years.• King Charles I was executed on 30th January 1649.• In any event, surveying becomes a much more complicated business and much more difficult to execute satisfactorily.• This program automatically executes the commands once a day.• Franklin is in charge of executing the company's reorganization plan.• The school board, stymied, asked the federal court for an exemption from contempt proceedings for not executing the court order.• We will not be able to execute the programs without more funding.• Brock's attorney has yet to execute the will.• The directors make the decisions, but it's the managers who have to execute them.

summarily executed• In fact he was summarily executed.

beautifully/skilfully/poorly etc executed• Their spree of corporate takeovers is, for the most part, wildly ill-advised and poorly executed.• There were hardly any well known names; the recently purchased Simon Vouet is very poorly executed.• Balto G A beautifully executed, edge-of-your-seat exciting animated adventure.• They were just movies that didn't come together - poorly executed, I guess.• There is an occasional poorly executed sketch of a tiny organism or of a bone and muscle structure.

From Longman Business Dictionary

executeex·e·cute /ˈeksəkjuːt/ verb [transitiveT]

1to do what is written in a contract, plan etc

The directors make the decisions but the managers have to execute them.

UK companies with a proven management ability to execute a business plan

2COMPUTING when a computer executes a program or command (=instruction), it makes the program or command work

To make it easier, you can create a shell script to execute the program and invoke that.

—execution noun [uncountableU]

the solicitor’s execution of the will

Origin execute

(1300-1400) French exécuter, from Latin exsecutus, past participle of exsequi “to execute”, from sequi “to follow”

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