🇨🇳Chinese Source WordCode: ZH

执行

Pronunciation / Transliteration: zhíxíng

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Execute/ˈɛk.sɪ.kjuːt/
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🇨🇳 Example Sentence in Chinese:

"我们必须严格执行这项政策。"

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As verb
  1. 1

    To carry out or put into effect a plan, order, or course of action.

    "The company managed to execute the marketing strategy flawlessly."
  2. 2

    To run a computer program, instruction, or task.

    "Press enter to execute the command in the terminal."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the Late Latin verb 'exsequi', meaning 'to follow to the end' or 'to perform', combining 'ex-' (out, thoroughly) and 'sequi' (to follow). Entering Middle English via Old French 'executer' in the 15th century, the term evolved from meaning to carry out a legal judgment or administrative command to its modern computing, professional, and punitive senses.

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