Meaning & use
executing
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carrying out or putting into effect a plan, order, or task.
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The team executed the marketing strategy flawlessly.
The general ordered his troops to execute the maneuver at dawn.
A note on using this word
Also has a legal sense (signing a document to make it valid) and a grim sense (putting someone to death); context determines which meaning applies.
Words with a similar meaning
performingcarrying outimplementing
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Another way to use it
2. verb
putting a condemned person to death, especially as a legal punishment.
The state executed the convicted prisoner at dawn.
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