Definition of "audit"

audit

/ˈɔː.dɪt/

noun
plural audits
1. A judicial examination.
2. An examination in general.
3. An independent review and examination of records and activities to assess the adequacy of system controls, to ensure compliance with established policies and operational procedures, and to recommend necessary changes in controls, policies, or procedures
4. The result of such an examination, or an account as adjusted by auditors; final account.
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  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, [Act I, scene i]
5. (Scientology) Spiritual counseling, which forms the core of Dianetics.
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  [ 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., 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, pages 196–197
6. (obsolete) A general receptacle or receiver.
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  It [a little brook] paid to its common audit no more than the revenues of a little cloud.
  1651–1653, Jer[emy] Taylor, ΕΝΙΑΥΤΟΣ [Eniautos]. A Course of Sermons for All the Sundays of the Year. […], 2nd edition, London: […] Richard Royston […], published 1655
7. (obsolete) An audience; a hearing.
  Quotations
  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, […], page 49
verb
third-person singular simple present audits, present participle auditing, simple past and past participle audited
1. To examine and adjust (e.g. an account).
2. (finance, business) To conduct an independent review and examination of system records and activities in order to test the adequacy and effectiveness of data security and data integrity procedures, to ensure compliance with established policy and operational procedures, and to recommend any necessary changes
3. (Scientology) To counsel spiritually.
  Quotations
  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
4. To attend an academic class without the opportunity to receive academic credit.

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