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quality assurance

American  

noun

  1. a system for ensuring a desired level of quality in the development, production, or delivery of products and services: QA

    Quality assurance for nursing homes begins with a set of standards.


Etymology

Origin of quality assurance

First recorded in 1970–75

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“Had we known more, we could have done more with this,” Shannon Deckard, director of quality assurance and chief inspector at UPS Airlines said in the hearing.

From The Wall Street Journal May 19, 2026

Because AI still makes a lot of coding errors, they can serve as quality assurance.

From The Wall Street Journal May 13, 2026

We reviewed thousands of pages of Army Corps of Engineering quality assurance reports for the January fire soil cleanup.

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 29, 2025

Mr Lee also says conversations are saved temporarily for quality assurance but discarded after 30 days.

From BBC Oct. 2, 2025

How is their customer support functioning, and what methods are they using in their quality assurance?

From The Online World by De Presno, Odd

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