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Audit

noun

An inspection of the accounting procedures and records by a trained accountant or CPA. Synonym: audited account.

A methodical examination or review of a condition or situation. "An energy efficiency audit" , "An email log audit"

verb

(past & past part. audited; pres. part. auditing)

Examine carefully for accuracy with the intent of verification. Synonyms: inspect, scrutinise, scrutinize.

Attend academic courses without getting credit.

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... the directors should not be excluded from sitting in either House, and whether they should not be subject to the audit and visitation of a ...

— The Querist • George Berkeley

... logi. Attraction logajxo. Attractive cxarma. Attribute (v.) aligi al. Attribute (quality) eco. Auction auxkcia vendo. Audacious maltimega. Audacity maltimego. Audible (adj.) auxdebla. Audience (interview) auxdienco. Audience (congregation) auxditorio. Audit kontekzameni. Auditorium auxskultejo. Auger borilego. Aught (anything) io. Augment plimultigi, pliigi. August (month) Auxgusto. August nobla. Aunt onklino. Aureola auxreolo. Au revoir gxis revido. Auriferous orhava. Auscultate ...

— English-Esperanto Dictionary • John Charles O'Connor and Charles Frederic Hayes

... on the papers that had accumulated in File A6754, and turned them over to the Audit Department. The Audit Department took some time to look the matter up, and after the usual delay wrote Flannery that as he had on hand one hundred and sixty guinea-pigs, the property of consignee, he should deliver them and collect charges at the ...

— "Pigs is Pigs" • Ellis Parker Butler

... gentlemen. And I can never remember the time when it was not diligently impressed upon me that, if I minded my syntax, I might eventually hope to reach a position which would give me three hundred pounds a year, a stable for my horse, six dozen of audit ale every Christmas, a loaf and two pats of butter every morning, and a good dinner for nothing, with as many almonds and raisins as ...

— Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay • George Otto Trevelyan

... doubtful. But seculars of position or influence appear to have been able to borrow monastic books. For example, in 1320, the prior and convent of Ely acknowledge receiving ten books from the executors of a rector of Balsham, who had borrowed them.[3] Some years later, at an audit of books of Christ Church, Canterbury, seventeen manuscripts— thirteen of them on law—were noted as in the hands of seculars, among ...

— Old English Libraries, The Making, Collection, and Use of Books • Ernest A. Savage

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