audit trail: Meaning and Definition of

au'dit trail"

Pronunciation: [key]
  1. the process or an instance of cross-referring each bookkeeping entry to its source in order to facilitate checking its accuracy.
  2. 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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