Audit Meaning
/ˈɔːdɪt/Definition, CEFR level B2, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
nounA judicial examination.
nounAn examination in general.
Sentence Examples
This financial audit also includes an evaluation of the company's assets.
You will be in trouble if you become the target of a tax audit.
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CEFR Practice Quiz
To ensure accuracy, the company hired an external team to ____ their financial records.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The company underwent an independent ____ of its financial records.
Word Origin & History
Borrowed from Latin audītus, from audiō (“to hear”). The sense of examine is because examinations were originally presented orally, and the examiner listened.
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"Yet I can make my audit up."
— c. 1608–1609 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Coriolanus”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:
"[ Werner Erhard said:] I got a lot of benefit from auditing. It was the fastest and deepest way to handle situations that I had yet encountered."
— 1978, William Warren Bartley, Werner Erhard: the Transformation of a Man: the Founding of est, New York: Clarkson N. Potter, Inc., →ISBN, pages 146–47:
"The trainings of Landmark, Block Training and UP Hans Schuster und Partner thus display strong similarities with the self-improvement seminars of Scientology, which are incidentally called 'auditing sessions', a term taken from the business world."
— 2007, Martin Ramstedt, “New Age and Business: Corporations as Cultic Milieus?”, in Daren Kemp, James R. Lewis, editors, Handbook of the New Age (Brill Handbooks on Contemporary Religion), volume 1, Leiden: BRILL, →ISBN, pages 196–197:
"With his Oriſons I meddle not, for hee appeals to a high Audit."
— 1649, J[ohn] Milton, chapter V, in ΕΙΚΟΝΟΚΛΆΣΤΗΣ [Eikonoklástēs] […], London: […] Matthew Simmons, […], →OCLC, page 49:
"In John's case, I suspect, when he lost Diana he went back to his Scientology church to be audited."
— 2011, Diane Saks, Overcoming Celebrity Obsession, page 225:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
To ensure accuracy, the company hired an external team to ____ their financial records.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The company underwent an independent ____ of its financial records.