{
    "term": "audit",
    "partOfSpeech": "noun",
    "ox5000": true,
    "cefr": "c1",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "an official examination of business and financial records to see that they are true and correct",
            "cefr": "c1",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "an annual audit"
                },
                {
                    "text": "a tax audit"
                },
                {
                    "text": "preparing the accounts for audit"
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Money", "Business"]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "an official examination of the quality or standard of something",
            "cefr": "c1",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "an environmental audit"
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Business"]
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈɔːdɪt/",
                "audio": "au/audit/audit__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈɔːdɪt/",
                "audio": "au/audit/audit__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "late Middle English: from Latin auditus ‘hearing’, from audire ‘hear’, in medieval Latin auditus (compoti) ‘audit (of an account)’, an audit originally being presented orally."
}