Meaning of paper-trail | Babel Free

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Noun. [C1]

Examples

“Jane found herself looking at the conventional paper-trail of a young woman's financial life –credit-card bills, reams of bank statements and a building society passbook.”

“For example, not only did we have⟳ to provide⟳ a child safety policy, we had to demonstrate⟳ that we operated one, that the policy documents were in the filing system, that staff had been inducted in the new policies and that there was a 'paper-trail', a horrible expression, to demonstrate⟳ that that a system was embedded in the school's management and teaching practices.”

“The applicant would still need⟳ to approach⟳ the agency with the same application perhaps more than once so that a reasonable paper-trail of indecision on the case, or a stalemate or deadlock of the case situation is created.”

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