quality assurance

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.

Word History and Origins

Origin of quality assurance¹

First recorded in 1970–75

Example Sentences

These units are typically goods returned by customers, undergo layers of quality assurance and found to be in good working order, and then re-sold at a discount instead of getting returned to the manufacturer.

From Popular-Science

Decades later, JBL systems became the basis for the THX standard, which kicked off high-fidelity quality assurances in theaters and established JBL’s presence in many auditoriums.

From Popular-Science

If a sample fails its quality assurance test, a farmer could have to destroy an entire crop of cannabis.

From FiveThirtyEight

We even talked about how to do content quality assurance and then train writers to write better, if that is even possible.

From Search Engine Land

Upon arrival, the vaccine undergoes a quality assurance process that takes 12 to 24 hours.

From Fortune

Any financial institution would have a huge quality assurance team to find such bugs, but for Mark it was all up to him.

From The Daily Beast

Similarly, a high level of internal due diligence and quality assurance supports these rankings.

From The Daily Beast