execute

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
execute /ˈɛksɪkjuːt/

▶verb

• 1 put (a plan, order, etc.) into effect.

  ■ perform (an activity or manoeuvre).

  ■ Law make (a legal instrument) valid by signing or sealing it.

  ■ Law carry out (a judicial sentence, the terms of a will, or other order).

  ■ Computing run (a file or program).

• 2 carry out a sentence of death on (a condemned person).

– derivatives
executable adjective (Computing).

– origin ME: from OFr. executer, from med. L. executare, from L. exsequi ‘follow up, carry out, punish’.