audited
- 1Simple past and past participle of audit.
An independent firm audited the company's financial statements in March.
Every department was audited after the budget scandal broke.
Note
One spelling does two jobs, as with any regular verb. As a simple past it follows the person who did the checking (the firm audited the books). As a participle it builds perfects with have and passives with be (the books have been audited). The passive suits accounts and data systems, where the thing examined matters most. The classroom meaning, sitting in on a course without credit, usually keeps the student as subject: she audited the seminar.
audited is a form of audit
audit, verb: To independently review a system's records and activities to test whether data security and integrity procedures work, confirm compliance with policy, and recommend changes. Full entry
- Spelling
- audit → audited: add -ed
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /ɪd/, an extra syllable.
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