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quality assurance
noun
: a program for the systematic monitoring and evaluation of the various aspects of a project, service, or facility to ensure that standards of quality are being met
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State of play: The new bargaining unit will include 130 quality assurance technicians, production associates, and logistics and manufacturing technicians at the facility, which produces coils for MRI machines.
—Sam Allard, Axios, 16 Jan. 2025
Technical Standards And Quality Assurance Technical standards and quality assurance play a critical role in ensuring reliability and safety.
—Ed Gaudet, Forbes, 15 Jan. 2025
This would cover the cost of 22 additional full-time ombudsmen statewide, including a quality assurance officer and discharge rights officer at the state level.
—Jess Huff, Austin American-Statesman, 27 Dec. 2024
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Word History
First Known Use
1973, in the meaning defined above
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The first known use of quality assurance was
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“Quality assurance.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/quality%20assurance. Accessed 22 Jan. 2025.
Medical Definition
quality assurance
noun
quality as·sur·ance
-ə-ˈshu̇r-ən(t)s
: a program for the systematic monitoring and evaluation of the various aspects of a project, service, or facility to ensure that standards of quality are being met
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