Collocations for "execution"
Common phrases and expressions where native English speakers use the word "execution" in context.
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execution
ⓘMost examples are given in US English. We have labeled exceptions as UK.n
- the execution of [criminals, prisoners, murderers, rebels]
- execution by [electric chair, lethal injection, firing squad]
- has been sentenced to execution
- ordered the execution of the [rebels, murderer]
- public executions [no longer, still] take place
- was granted a stay of execution
- was [spared, freed from] execution (by the judge)
- execution by [stoning, fire squads] was commonplace
- the execution of [her, the] will
- the execution of [commands, orders, instructions]
- the [swift, immediate, full] execution of [commands]
- the [careful, successful, painstaking] execution of the plan
- the plan suffered from poor execution
- the execution of [game, marketing, political] strategies
- a [flawless, flawed, wonderful, clinical] execution of the [play, piece, sonata]
- the execution [rate, time, speed, date]
- determine the execution method
- computing: [modify, edit] an execution order
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