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QUALITY CONTROL
Pronunciation (US): | (GB): |
I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Maintenance of standards of quality of manufactured goods
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("quality control" is a kind of...):
internal control (an accounting procedure or system designed to promote efficiency or assure the implementation of a policy or safeguard assets or avoid fraud and error etc.)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "quality control"):
acceptance sampling (a statistical procedure for accepting or rejecting a batch of merchandise or documents; involves determining the maximum number of defects discovered in a sample before the entire batch is rejected)