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词汇 paper-trail
释义 paper trail
noun[ Cusually singular ]
uk /ˈpeɪ.pə ˌtreɪl/ us /ˈpeɪ.pɚ ˌtreɪl/
a series of documents that show a record of your activities(对某人活动作记载的)纸上跟踪,系列文件,档案
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

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paper trail | Business English


paper trail
noun[ C,usually singular ]
ukus
a series of documents that show a record of your activities:
You are required to keep a paper trail so that auditors may look over your work.

Examples of paper trail


paper trail
Keep a clear process papertrail so that people following after you can know the basis of decisions made.
Most significantly, these employees did not, by and large, leave behind a papertrail that gives voice or understanding to their actions, thoughts and goals.
By creating a formal papertrail of senators' views on nominees, the blue slip would have expanded the scope of conflict over disputed nominees.
Where this took the form of direct barter, managers were able to evade detection by not leaving a papertrail.
For a ' secret army ', the guerrillas left an extraordinary papertrail through their own and their opponents' records, as well as in the daily and weekly press.
The taxpayer is also protected through that same papertrail.
From the
Hansard archive

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The rapporteur has produced an extraordinarily unhelpful explanatory statement, which is really little more than a blow-by-painful-blow account of a papertrail.
From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English
They can do that only through an extensive and expensive papertrail, which could otherwise be avoided.
From the
Hansard archive

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It will become much more difficult to identify transactions and the papertrail that supports them in order to determine duties and taxes due.
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Hansard archive

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There is thus no papertrail and no links connecting countries' central banks with foreign exchange transactions.
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Hansard archive

Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0
Thirdly, a proper papertrail should be kept.
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Hansard archive

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There is no papertrail.
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Hansard archive

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We had the strong impression that a papertrail alone was being pursued and that discussions that were not recorded in detail were thought not to have taken place.
From the
Hansard archive

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If the item has no papertrail, it is more likely to be a forgery.
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Wikipedia

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A key requirement in this case is (metrological) traceability, an unbroken papertrail of calibrations back to the primary standard.
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