auditとは

意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (Received 発音) IPA^(key): /ˈɔː.dɪt/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈɔ.dɪt/
• 韻: -ɔːdɪt

名詞

audit (複数形 audits)

1. A judicial examination.
2. An examination in general.
3. An independent review and examination of records and activities to assess the adequacy of system controls, to ensure compliance with established policies and operational procedures, and to recommend necessary changes in controls, policies, or procedures

   National Assembly audit

4. The result of such an examination, or an account as adjusted by auditors; final account.
   • c. 1608–1609, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Coriolanus”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act I, scene i]:

     Yet I can make my audit up.

5. (Scientology) Spiritual counseling, which forms the core of Dianetics.
   • 1978, William Warren Bartley, Werner Erhard: the Transformation of a Man: the Founding of est, New York: Clarkson N. Potter, Inc., →ISBN, page 146-47:

     [ Werner Erhard said:] I got a lot of benefit from auditing. It was the fastest and deepest way to handle situations that I had yet encountered.

   • 2007, “New Age and Business: Corporations as Cultic Milieus?”, in Handbook of the New Age (Brill Handbooks on Contemporary Religion), volume 1, Leiden: BRILL, →ISBN, pages 196-197:

     The trainings of Landmark, Block Training and UP Hans Schuster und Partner thus display strong similarities with the self-improvement seminars of Scientology, which are incidentally called 'auditing sessions', a term taken from the business world.

6. (obsolete) A general receptacle or receiver.
   • 1673, Jeremy Taylor, Heniaytos: A Course of Sermons for All the Sundays of the Year […] , "A Funeral Sermon"

     It [a little brook] paid to its common audit no more than the revenues of a little cloud.

7. (obsolete) An audience; a hearing.
   • 1649, J[ohn] Milton, chapter V, in ΕΙΚΟΝΟΚΛΆΣΤΗΣ [EIKONOKLASTES] […], London: […] Matthew Simmons, […], OCLC 1044608640, page 49:

     With his Oriſons I meddle not, for hee appeals to a high Audit.

派生語

• audit ale
• audit house
• audit room

派生した語

• → Polish: audyt

動詞

audit (三人称単数 現在形 audits, 現在分詞 auditing, 過去形および過去分詞形 audited)

1. To examine and adjust (e.g. an account).

   to audit the accounts of a treasure, or of parties who have a suit depending in court

2. (finance, business) To conduct an independent review and examination of system records and activities in order to test the adequacy and effectiveness of data security and data integrity procedures, to ensure compliance with established policy and operational procedures, and to recommend any necessary changes
3. (Scientology) To counsel spiritually.
   • 2011, Diane Saks, Overcoming Celebrity Obsession, page 225:

     In John's case, I suspect, when he lost Diana he went back to his Scientology church to be audited.

4. To attend an academic class without the opportunity to receive academic credit.

派生した語

• → Spanish: auditar

アナグラム

• ditau