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Defense leaders should be searching for ways to reform out-of-date procurement processes, to collapse layers of Pentagon bureaucracy, and to restrain the growth in personnel and benefits costs. A critical first step in that process should be to conduct a full Pentagon audit to determine how DOD spends taxpayer dollars.
Pete Hegseth

Meaning of "audit" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD AUDIT

From Latin audītus a hearing, from audīre to hear.
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Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.
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PRONUNCIATION OF AUDIT

audit  [ˈɔːdɪt] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF AUDIT

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Audit is a verb and can also act as a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

See the conjugation of the verb audit in English.

WHAT DOES AUDIT MEAN IN ENGLISH?

audit

Audit

The general definition of an audit is a planned and documented activity performed by qualified personnel to determine by investigation, examination, or evaluation of objective evidence, the adequacy and compliance with established procedures, or applicable documents, and the effectiveness of implementation. The term may refer to audits in accounting, internal controls, quality management, project management, water management, and energy conservation. Auditing is defined as a systematic and independent examination of data, statements, records, operations and performances of an enterprise for a stated purpose. In any auditing the auditor perceives and recognizes the propositions before him for examination, collects evidence, evaluates the same and on this basis formulates his judgment which is communicated through his audit report. The purpose is then to give an opinion on the adequacy of controls within an environment they audit, to evaluate and improve the effectiveness of risk management, control, and governance processes.

Definition of audit in the English dictionary

The first definition of audit in the dictionary is an inspection, correction, and verification of business accounts, conducted by an independent qualified accountant. Other definition of audit is an audited account. Audit is also any thoroughgoing check or examination.

CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO AUDIT

PRESENT

Present
I audit
you audit
he/she/it audits
we audit
you audit
they audit
Present continuous
I am auditing
you are auditing
he/she/it is auditing
we are auditing
you are auditing
they are auditing
Present perfect
I have audited
you have audited
he/she/it has audited
we have audited
you have audited
they have audited
Present perfect continuous
I have been auditing
you have been auditing
he/she/it has been auditing
we have been auditing
you have been auditing
they have been auditing
Present tense is used to refer to circumstances that exist at the present time or over a period that includes the present time. The present perfect refers to past events, although it can be considered to denote primarily the resulting present situation rather than the events themselves.

PAST

Past
I audited
you audited
he/she/it audited
we audited
you audited
they audited
Past continuous
I was auditing
you were auditing
he/she/it was auditing
we were auditing
you were auditing
they were auditing
Past perfect
I had audited
you had audited
he/she/it had audited
we had audited
you had audited
they had audited
Past perfect continuous
I had been auditing
you had been auditing
he/she/it had been auditing
we had been auditing
you had been auditing
they had been auditing
Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,

FUTURE

Future
I will audit
you will audit
he/she/it will audit
we will audit
you will audit
they will audit
Future continuous
I will be auditing
you will be auditing
he/she/it will be auditing
we will be auditing
you will be auditing
they will be auditing
Future perfect
I will have audited
you will have audited
he/she/it will have audited
we will have audited
you will have audited
they will have audited
Future perfect continuous
I will have been auditing
you will have been auditing
he/she/it will have been auditing
we will have been auditing
you will have been auditing
they will have been auditing
The future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.

CONDITIONAL

Conditional
I would audit
you would audit
he/she/it would audit
we would audit
you would audit
they would audit
Conditional continuous
I would be auditing
you would be auditing
he/she/it would be auditing
we would be auditing
you would be auditing
they would be auditing
Conditional perfect
I would have audit
you would have audit
he/she/it would have audit
we would have audit
you would have audit
they would have audit
Conditional perfect continuous
I would have been auditing
you would have been auditing
he/she/it would have been auditing
we would have been auditing
you would have been auditing
they would have been auditing
Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.

IMPERATIVE

Imperative
you audit
we let´s audit
you audit
The imperative is used to form commands or requests.
NONFINITE VERB FORMS
Infinitive
to audit
Past participle
audited
Present Participle
auditing
Infinitive shows the action beyond temporal perspective. The present participle or gerund shows the action during the session. The past participle shows the action after completion.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH AUDIT


accredit
əˈkrɛdɪt
adit
ˈædɪt
bandit
ˈbændɪt
coedit
kəʊˈɛdɪt
conduit
ˈkɒndɪt
credit
ˈkrɛdɪt
discredit
dɪsˈkrɛdɪt
dit
dɪt
edit
ˈɛdɪt
excudit
ɛksˈkjuːdɪt
geddit
ˈɡɛdɪt
micro-credit
ˈmaɪkrəʊˌkrɛdɪt
noncredit
ˌnɒnˈkrɛdɪt
overedit
ˌəʊvərˈedɪt
pandit
ˈpʌndɪt
plaudit
ˈplɔːdɪt
preaudit
priːˈɔːdɪt
pundit
ˈpʌndɪt
reedit
riːˈɛdɪt
subedit
sʌbˈɛdɪt

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE AUDIT

audiphone
Audit Bureau of Circulation
audit trail
auditable
auditee
auditing
audition
auditioner
auditive
auditor
Auditor General
auditoria
auditorial
auditorily
auditorium
auditorship
auditory
auditory aphasia
auditory phonetics
auditress

WORDS THAT END LIKE AUDIT

carbon credit
confirmed letter of credit
consumer credit
copy-edit
documentary letter of credit
environmental audit
export credit
family credit
general audit
internal audit
letter of credit
line of credit
medical audit
on credit
on dit
one-armed bandit
position audit
revolving credit
Social Credit
tax credit

Synonyms and antonyms of audit in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «AUDIT»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «audit» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of audit

Translation of «audit» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF AUDIT

Find out the translation of audit to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of audit from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «audit» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

审计
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

auditoría
570 millions of speakers

English

audit
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

ऑडिट
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

مُرَاجَعَةُ الـحِسَابات
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

проверка
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

auditoria
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

audiphone
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

audit
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Audiphone
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Rechnungsprüfung
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

監査
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

감사
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Audiphone
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

sự kiểm toán
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

audiphone
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

ऑडीफोन
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

audiphone
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

revisione
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

kontrola ksiąg
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

аудит
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

audit
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

έλεγχος
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

oudit
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

revision
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

revisjon
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of audit

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «AUDIT»

The term «audit» is very widely used and occupies the 8.037 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «AUDIT» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «audit» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «audit» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about audit

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10 QUOTES WITH «AUDIT»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word audit.
1
Bob Barr
Organizations worried about the potential for e-voting problems have long-advocated for audit procedures by which votes cast by e-voting machines could be verified through audit trails.
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Kenneth Blackwell
The reason it takes us from November the second to December the sixth to certify is because we have a very tedious, very comprehensive process where we audit by precinct, across the state, every vote that was cast to make sure that every vote that was legally cast is counted.
3
Paul Broun
It's absolutely critical that we audit the Fed so the American people can see what's going on over there. Do it from top to bottom so that we can have transparency in this entity called the Federal Reserve. Hopefully, the American people will see that we need to go back to the gold standard, which I've introduced, and get rid of the Fed.
4
Tom Coburn
The Pentagon can't even audit its own books. It doesn't even know where its money is going. And we refuse to have the tough forces go on the Pentagon so that at least they are efficient with the money they're spending.
5
Northrop Frye
Americans like to make money; Canadians like to audit it. I know no other country where accountants have a higher social and moral status.
6
Barton Gellman
The National Security Agency has broken privacy rules or overstepped its legal authority thousands of times each year since Congress granted the agency broad new powers in 2008, according to an internal audit and other top-secret documents.
7
Pete Hegseth
Concerned Veterans for America (CVA) has called for an audit of the Pentagon, so that we finally have some transparency and accountability in how DOD spends taxpayer dollars.
8
Pete Hegseth
Defense leaders should be searching for ways to reform out-of-date procurement processes, to collapse layers of Pentagon bureaucracy, and to restrain the growth in personnel and benefits costs. A critical first step in that process should be to conduct a full Pentagon audit to determine how DOD spends taxpayer dollars.
9
Jacqueline Novogratz
I was an accidental banker. To please my parents, I went for an interview with Chase Manhattan Bank in 1983. They promised to send me into their offices in more than 40 countries and essentially audit the practices. It was an extraordinary job.
10
Jane Pauley
I think women think a lot about cycles, biological and personal. This year another cycle came around: my contract was up. It seemed an opportunity to take a life audit.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «AUDIT»

Discover the use of audit in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to audit and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Atomic Audit: The Costs and Consequences of U.S. Nuclear ...
Based on four years of extensive research, Atomic Audit is the first book to document the comprehensive costs of U.S. nuclear weapons, assembling for the first time anywhere the actual and estimated expenditures for the program since its ...
Stephen I. Schwartz, 2011
2
New Principles of Best Practice in Clinical Audit
This book is essential reading for all those who undertake clinical audit or are training to do so, including health practitioners, managers and commissioners in the NHS.
Robin Burgess, 2011
3
Audit Procedures 2008
The 2008 Edition integrates Knowledge-Based Audits of Commercial Entities and explains the AICPA's Auditing Standards Board's new risk assessment standards, which represent significant changes to existing audit practice.
Luis Puncel, 2007
4
101 Recipes for Audit in Psychiatry
Audit is an essential activity for all psychiatrists and this book will help ease that process by offering tried and tested recipes for conducting audits in clinical services.
Clare Oakley, Floriana Coccia, Neil Masson, 2011
5
Information Technology Control and Audit, Third Edition
Demonstrating why controls and audits are critical, and defining advances in technology designed to support them, this volume meets the increasing need for audit and control professionals to understand information technology and the ...
Sandra Senft, Frederick Gallegos, 2010
6
Handbook on Energy Audit and Environment Management
Released on 24 Aug 2006, by Shri Sushil Kumar Shinde, Hon'ble Union Minister of Power, Govt. of India, the handbook presents a detailed account of energy conservation and environmental management in small, medium as well as large ...
Y. P. Abbi, Shashank Jain, 2006
7
IT Audit, Control, and Security
This very timely book provides auditors with the guidance they need to ensure that their systems are secure from both internal and external threats.
Robert R. Moeller, 2010
8
Wiley CIA Exam Review 2013, Part 1, Internal Audit Basics
Here is the best source to help you prepare for the Certified Internal Auditor (CIA) exam covering the new syllabus, effective 2013.
S. Rao Vallabhaneni, 2013
9
Audit Planning: A Risk-Based Approach
This book provides the practical guidance and tools to get auditors up to speed quickly with a real-world, risk-based approach to auditing.
K. H. Spencer Pickett, 2006
10
The Internal Auditing Handbook
This edition of The Internal Auditing Handbook will prove to be an indispensable reference for both new and experienced auditors, as well as business managers, members of audit committees, control and compliance teams, and all those who may ...
K. H. Spencer Pickett, 2010

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «AUDIT»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term audit is used in the context of the following news items.
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DRESCHEL: $24000 party leads to audit of Hamilton councillor
Tom Jackson, left, is just one of eight sitting councillors facing a possible election-spending audit stemming from concerns raised by Stoney ... «Hamilton Spectator, Jul 15»
2
AGP orders special audit of PHF
Auditor General of Pakistan (AGP) Rana Asad Amin has ordered a special audit of the Pakistan Hockey Federation (PHF) after receiving the ... «The Express Tribune, Jul 15»
3
Government plans social audit of factories to check working …
NEW DELHI: The government is mulling social audit of all factories to check whether workers are getting conducive working conditions, ... «Economic Times, Jul 15»
4
Internal audit report raises concerns over county council's book …
West Sussex County Council's Annual Audit Report 2014/15 was discussed at a Regulation, Audit and Accounts Committee meeting on June ... «Crawley Observer, Jul 15»
5
Most diamond mining firms operating in the red: Audit
A GOVERNMENT audit report has revealed that most diamond mining companies in the Marange area started operating in the red as early as ... «NewsDay, Jul 15»
6
TechSource's new Audit Management System empowers audit
The TechSource Audit Management System facilitates the management of audit process through a range of value-added services that includes ... «Zawya, Jul 15»
7
Audit rates several areas of Rapid City for walkability
The downtown core of Rapid City is a reasonably safe and pleasant place for foot traffic, an innovative audit of city walking has concluded, but ... «Rapid City Journal, Jul 15»
8
2013 Boyd audit: Weaknesses involve bidding, salary setting
The audit, performed by Morgan County-based firm Morgan Franklin LLC, found the court failed to publish its financial statements from the ... «The Independent, Jul 15»
9
Audit: Agency stockpiled $9M in Osprey parts
Defense Logistics Aviation, according to its audit response, conducts monthly reviews of its V-22 spare parts inventories and has a process to ... «Amarillo.com, Jul 15»
10
HCC COMPLETED 2011 AUDIT REPORT
Requesting the Honiara City Council's audit reports for 2011 to 2014 last week during the Public Accounts hearing, Mr. Wale says the Council ... «Solomon Islands Broadcasting Corporation, Jul 15»

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