audits

Noun

audit (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
   • National Assembly audit
4. The result of such an examination, or an account as adjusted by auditors; final account.
   • 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]...
5. Spiritual counseling, which forms the core of Dianetics.
   • [ 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
6. (obsolete) A general receptacle or receiver.
   • , "A Funeral Sermon"
     It [a little brook] paid to its common audit no more than the revenues of a little cloud.

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