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noun

Accounting. the process or an instance of cross-referring each bookkeeping entry to its source in order to facilitate checking its accuracy.

Computers. a track of a particular item of output data back through the processing steps that produced it to the corresponding input data.

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Origin of audit trail

First recorded in 1965–70

Words nearby audit trail

auditory receptor cell, auditory reflex, auditory tube, auditory vertigo, auditory vesicle, audit trail, Audrey, Audubon, Audubon, John James, Audubon Society, Audubon's warbler

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Recall how Clinton returned to Arkansas from the campaign trail to preside over the execution of a mentally disabled man.
President Cuomo Would’ve Been a Lion|Jonathan Alter|January 2, 2015|DAILY BEAST
To break her self-destructive cycle and heal, she decides to hike 1,100 miles of the Pacific Crest Trail solo.
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Mothers pushed their children's heads down and they sped through town, leaving a trail of machine-gun shells in their wake.
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One seemed particularly promising, by a trail with a big pile of natural brush to furnish a screen.
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Instead, that trail seems to lead to another Spinal Solutions contractor, Ryan Zavilenski.
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No trail was so obtuse, no thicket so dense that members of that regiment would not track them to their lair.
The Courier of the Ozarks|Byron A. Dunn
If it should ever be my lot to take the Long Trail at short notice, I hope it will be under a blue sky and a blazing sun.
Raw Gold|Bertrand W. Sinclair
For a "cold collation on the occasion of the audit" our Council always allows 10.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 107, November 3, 1894|Various
When we got down into the bottom Mac turned aside to the deep-worn trail and glanced sharply down at the ruts.
Raw Gold|Bertrand W. Sinclair
She had been walking alone with her arms hanging limp, letting her white skirts trail along the dewy path.
The Awakening and Selected Short Stories|Kate Chopin

British Dictionary definitions for audit trail

audit trail

noun

a record of all the transactions or data entries that a person or firm has carried out over a specific period

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