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audit

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Latin audītus, from audiō (“I hear”).

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Noun

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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.
  5. (Scientology) Spiritual counseling, which forms the core of Dianetics.
    • 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:
      [ 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.
    • 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:
      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.
  6. (obsolete) A general receptacle or receiver.
    • 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, →OCLC:
      , "A Funeral Sermon"
      It [a little brook] paid to its common audit no more than the revenues of a little cloud.
  7. (obsolete) An audience; a hearing.

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Descendants

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  • → Polish: audyt

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Verb

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audit (third-person singular simple present audits, present participle auditing, simple past and past participle audited)

  1. To examine and adjust (e.g. an account).
    to audit the accounts of a treasure, or of parties who have a suit depending in court
  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.
    • 2011, Diane Saks, Overcoming Celebrity Obsession, page 225:
      In John's case, I suspect, when he lost Diana he went back to his Scientology church to be audited.
  4. To attend an academic class without the opportunity to receive academic credit.

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Catalan

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Participle

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audit (feminine audida, masculine plural audits, feminine plural audides)

  1. past participle of audir

Czech

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Noun

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audit m inan

  1. audit (independent review and examination of records and activities)
    provést audit ― to perform an audit
    zpráva z auditu ― audit report

Declension

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Declension of audit (hard masculine inanimate)
singular plural
nominative audit audity
genitive auditu auditů
dative auditu auditům
accusative audit audity
vocative audite audity
locative auditu auditech
instrumental auditem audity
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Further reading

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  • “audit”, in Kartotéka Novočeského lexikálního archivu (in Czech)
  • audit in Akademický slovník cizích slov, 1995, at prirucka.ujc.cas.cz

French

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Etymology 1

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Contraction

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audit

  1. Contraction of à + ledit.

Etymology 2

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Borrowed from English audit. Doublet of ouï.

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audit m (plural audits)

  1. audit

Indonesian

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Etymology

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Internationalism, borrowed from Dutch audit, from Latin audītus, audiō (“I hear”).

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audit (plural audit-audit, first-person possessive auditku, second-person possessive auditmu, third-person possessive auditnya)

  1. audit

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Latin

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audit

  1. third-person singular present active indicative of audiō

Romanian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from English audit or French audit.

Noun

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audit n (uncountable)

  1. audit

Declension

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declension of audit (singular only)
singular
n gender indefinite articulation definite articulation
nominative/accusative (un) audit auditul
genitive/dative (unui) audit auditului
vocative auditule
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