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

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

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ECC denied Smith’s claims, saying it “does not perform excessive soil removal” and that it followed “the detailed debris removal operations plan requirements” of the Army Corps of Engineers, which had its own quality assurance representatives monitoring the work.

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In 2022, a small group of quality assurance workers at Raven Software, an Activision Blizzard-owned game studio in Wisconsin, unionized — marking the arrival of the first labor union at a major U.S. gaming company.

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These include providing a workforce, a process and protocols which deliver a safe service, as well as quality assurance to monitor and gauge the provision of services.

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Workers at the lab had previously told The Times that they observed lapses in quality assurance procedures, as well as other mistakes in the testing process.

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