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self-executing

self-executing adjective: needing no legislation to enforce it.

Adjective

self-executing (not comparable)

  1. Needing no legislation to enforce it.
    • The general rule is that constitutional provisions are self-executing, except when the provisions themselves expressly require legislations to implement them […]2003, Ruben E. Agpalo, Statutory Construction, page 467
  2. Consisting of a complete executable package that takes some action with the included data, rather than a pure data file requiring some additional tool to read it.
    • Downloadable software can be provided in several different formats. Some automatically install themselves, but others require manual procedures. A downloadable file typically is set up as a self-installing executable file, self-executing zip file, […]2005, June Jamrich Parsons, Dan Oja, New Perspectives on Computer Concepts: Comprehensive, page 156
    • The other commonly used method is a self-executing package where the installer and the update are bundled into a single executable.2007, Bill Stackpole, Patrick Hanrion, Software Deployment, Updating, and Patching, page 310

self-executing meaning in Tamil

self-executing in Tamil

இயல்நடைமுறைப்பாடுடைய, சட்டவலுத்தேவைப்படாது செயலாற்றவல்ல, செயல்தன்னுரிமைவாய்ந்த

Origin of self-executing

From self- + executing.

Questions about self-executing

What does self-executing mean?
Self-executing means needing no legislation to enforce it.
What is self-executing in Tamil?
Self-executing in Tamil is இயல்நடைமுறைப்பாடுடைய, சட்டவலுத்தேவைப்படாது செயலாற்றவல்ல, செயல்தன்னுரிமைவாய்ந்த. See Self-executing meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is self-executing?
Self-executing is an adjective.

Words near self-executing in the dictionary

  1. self-excited
  2. self-excites
  3. self-exciting
  4. self-exclusion
  5. self-exclusions
  6. self-executing
  7. self-exile
  8. self-exiled
  9. self-exiles
  10. self-exiling
  11. self-existence

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Adapted from Wiktionary: self-executing (page history and authors); self-executing (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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