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English
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin audītus, from audiō (“I hear”).
Pronunciation
Noun
audit (plural audits)
- A judicial examination.
- An examination in general.
- 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
- The result of such an examination, or an account as adjusted by auditors; final account.
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 Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, :Yet I can make my audit up.
- (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.
- (obsolete) A general receptacle or receiver.
- , "A Funeral Sermon"
- It paid to its common audit no more than the revenues of a little cloud.
- (obsolete) An audience; a hearing.
Derived terms
Descendants
Translations
independent review
- Armenian: աուդիտ (hy) (audit)
- Bulgarian: реви́зия (bg) f (revízija), одит m (odit)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 審計/审计 (zh) (shěnjì)
- Czech: audit (cs) m
- Finnish: tarkastus (fi), auditointi (fi)
- French: audit (fr) m
- Galician: auditoría (gl) f
- German: Buchprüfung f, Bilanzprüfung f, Kontrolle (de) f
- Hungarian: felülvizsgálat (hu), ellenőrzés (hu), revízió (hu), (mostly in terms of accounting) audit (hu), auditálás, könyvvizsgálat (hu)
- Italian: revisione (it) f, audit (it) m
- Japanese: 監査 (ja) (かんさ, kansa)
- Kazakh: аудит (audit)
- Manx: scrutaghey m
- Maori: arotakenga, tātari kaute (of accounts), arotake pūtea (of accounts)
- Norwegian: revisjon m, regnskapskontroll m, bokettersyn n
- Persian: ممیزی (fa) (mamizi)
- Polish: audyt (pl) m
- Portuguese: auditoria (pt) f
- Russian: ауди́т (ru) f (audít), реви́зия (ru) f (revízija), инспе́кция (ru) f (inspékcija)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: ревизија f
- Roman: revizija (sh) f
- Spanish: auditoría f
- Swahili: ukaguzi (sw)
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result of such an examination
Scientology: spiritual counseling
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Verb
audit (third-person singular simple present audits, present participle auditing, simple past and past participle audited)
- 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
- (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
- (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.
- To attend an academic class without the opportunity to receive academic credit.
Descendants
Translations
finance, business: to conduct an independent review and examination
Scientology: to counsel spiritually
to attend an academic class on a not-for-academic-credit basis
Anagrams
Catalan
Participle
audit (feminine audida, masculine plural audits, feminine plural audides)
- past participle of audir
Czech
Pronunciation
Noun
audit m inan
- audit (independent review and examination of records and activities)
- provést audit ― to perform an audit
- zpráva z auditu ― audit report
Declension
Declension of audit (hard masculine inanimate)
Related terms
Further reading
- audit in Kartotéka Novočeského lexikálního archivu
- audit in Akademický slovník cizích slov, 1995, at prirucka.ujc.cas.cz
French
Etymology 1
Pronunciation
Contraction
audit
- Contraction of à + ledit.
Etymology 2
Borrowed from English audit. Doublet of ouï.
Pronunciation
Noun
audit m (plural audits)
- audit
Indonesian
Etymology
Internationalism, borrowed from Dutch audit, from Latin audītus, audiō (“I hear”).
Pronunciation
Noun
audit (plural audit-audit, first-person possessive auditku, second-person possessive auditmu, third-person possessive auditnya)
- audit
Derived terms
Related terms
Further reading
Latin
Pronunciation
Verb
audit
- third-person singular present active indicative of audiō
Romanian
Etymology
Borrowed from English audit or French audit.
Noun
audit n (uncountable)
- audit
Declension
declension of audit (singular only)
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(un) audit
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auditul
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(unui) audit
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auditului
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auditule
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