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Plural of execution

regular plural

The plural of execution is executions.

Forms of execution

Singularexecution /ˌɛk.sɪˈkjuː.ʃən/
Pluralexecutions
Countablecountable and uncountable

Executions in a sentence

  • Efforts to unionize were routinely met with clubbings, shootings, jailings, blacklistings and executions, perpetrated not only by well-armed legions of company goons, but also by police officers, deputies, National Guardsmen and even regular soldiers.2009 February 22, Kevin Baker, “Blood on the Street”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 25 Jan 2021
  • They used summary executions to break the resistance of the people.From the entry summary
  • One of the great benefits is that it allows you to perform callouts during trigger executions.From the entry callout
  • With the king about to go on progress, the trials and executions were deliberately timed.2011, Thomas Penn, Winter King, Penguin, published 2012, page 124. From the entry progress
  • The celerity of executions is a generally neglected issue in the empirical literature on deterrence and capital punishment.1998, Hugo Adam Bedau, The Death Penalty in America: Current Controversies. From the entry celerity

Meaning of execution

  1. noun The act, manner or style of executing (actions, maneuvers, performances).
  2. noun The state of being accomplished.
  3. noun The act of putting to death or being put to death as a penalty, or actions so associated.

Full definition of execution

Questions about the plural of execution

What is the plural of execution?
The plural of execution is executions.
Is execution countable?
Execution is a countable and uncountable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: execution (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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