papertrail
papertrail is the alternative form of paper trail.
Meaning of paper trail
Noun
paper trail (plural paper trails)
- A written record, history, or collection of evidence.
- Keep a good paper trail in case anyone asks you why you arrived at that conclusion.
- Records left by a person or organization in the course of activities.
- With a good paperwork system in place, including a working paper trail, it becomes much easier to manage the flow of relevant information regarding your plants and orders.2003, Tony Avent, So You Want to Start a Nursery, page 265
- Physical evidence of something that occurred in the past.
- Beginning in the late 20th century, researchers were able to analyze the mtDNA and Y chromosomes of multiple races around the world, revealing a DNA paper trail that led back to eastern Africa around 200,000 years ago.2012, Paul Parsons, Science in 100 Key Breakthroughs
Forms of papertrail
| plural | papertrails |
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Questions about papertrail
- What is papertrail the alternative form of?
- Papertrail is the alternative form of paper trail.
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Adapted from Wiktionary: papertrail (page history and authors); paper trail (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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