Definitions for audits

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audits au·dit

Spelling: [aw-dit]

IPA: /ˈɔ dɪt/

Audits is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 7 points.

You can make 126 anagrams from letters in audits (adistu).

Definitions for audits

noun

1. an official examination and verification of accounts and records, especially of financial accounts.
2. a report or statement reflecting an audit; a final statement of account.
3. the inspection or examination of a building or other facility to evaluate or improve its appropriateness, safety, efficiency, or the like:
4. Archaic. a judicial hearing.
5. Obsolete. an audience.

verb (used with object)

1. to make an audit of; examine (accounts, records, etc.) for purposes of verification:
2. to attend (classes, lectures, etc.) as an auditor.
3. to make an audit of (a building or other facility) to evaluate or improve its safety, efficiency, or the like.

verb (used without object)

1. to examine and verify an account or accounts by reference to vouchers.

Origin of audits

1400-50; late Middle English audite Latin audītus the sense or act of hearing, equivalent to audī(re) to hear + -tus suffix of v. action

Examples for audits

The agency's audit concluded that the Senate staffers using the database had accessed documents they were not authorized to see.

Overall, some evidence of scheduling fraud was found in 76 percent of the 731 VA facilities reviewed for the audit.

audit the account, and do not let me give you a false statement of the debt.

Well, according to the 2006 audit of Gallagher Holdings, he could and did.

You've come all the way from London on purpose to make that audit, have you?

It is, of course, understood that this audit is strictly in confidence?

I personally think the VA should first approve the backlog claims and then audit the claims for accuracy.

They tried to audit my accounts, and what do you think I did?

She seemed to take charge, to adopt me with the house, to accept and audit and vouch for us.

This was as much an audit of past failures as an expose of current dysfunction.