Definitions

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun The creation, collection and management of records, especially of a business or governmental nature

Etymologies

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

record +‎ keeping

Support

Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word recordkeeping.

Examples

  • "Tidy recordkeeping" is not a hallmark of my lifestyle, unless your definition of "tidy" includes "packrat in a windtunnel"

    more advice 2005

  • Q Is there concern about the fact that the report could not cover the eight-month period following the firings of the staff there because of a lack of adequate recordkeeping, which is supposedly the reason why the staff was fired in the first place?

    Press Briefing By Mike Mccurry ITY National Archives 1996

  • While one time is inexusable but understandable, the same occurance happening at teh same school within five years is more than a "recordkeeping" issue, it is a leadership issue.

    Graduated in Error? Matt Johnston 2007

  • Fidelity's assets under administration, including accounts for which it provides services such as recordkeeping, rose 23 percent to $3.2 trillion in 2009.

    BusinessWeek.com -- 2010

  • Commercial pilots also have plenty of responsibilities to tend to on the ground, such as recordkeeping, maintenance, and loading the aircraft.

    U.S. News 2009

  • Congress has also been inconsistently applying notice posting and recordkeeping requirements to itself.

    Congress turns budget-cutting knife on itself Ben Pershing 2011

  • Congress has also been inconsistently applying notice posting and recordkeeping requirements to itself.

    Congress turns budget-cutting knife on itself Ben Pershing 2011

  • Many lenders engaged in indefensibly sloppy recordkeeping.

    Tanya D. Marsh: A Government-Mandated Foreclosure Moratorium Is a Popular (and Bad) Idea Tanya D. Marsh 2010

  • The commission said it was prepared to impose "very significant fines" if it finds the utility's "recordkeeping policies and practices contributed to the loss of life and injuries."

    PG&E Faces Fines in Pipeline Probe Rebecca Smith 2011

  • The CPUC, citing federal concerns, said its investigation would determine if PG&E's "recordkeeping represents a deficient engineering practice" that "fostered unsafe PG&E decision making" on its pipelines.

    PG&E Faces Fines in Pipeline Probe Rebecca Smith 2011

Comments

Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.