"tick and tie" meaning in English

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      "form": "ticks and ties",
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      "form": "ticking and tying",
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    },
    {
      "form": "ticked and tied",
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        "participle",
        "past"
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    },
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      "form": "ticked and tied",
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        "past"
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      "name": "en-verb"
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1997, James Edward Keogh, Solving the Year 2000 Problem, page 131:",
          "text": "The leveling diagram can be used as a tick and tie list for the year 2000 team to ensure that no system or piece of hardware that should be fixed is overlooked.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2003, Mary Pat McCarthy, Tim Flynn, Risk From the CEO and Board Perspective, page 22:",
          "text": "Rather than diving into the filing cabinets to tick and tie the paper trail, today's external audits start with a proper understanding of the business and the competitive environment in which a company operates.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2012, Jason A. Scharfman, Private Equity Operational Due Diligence, page 239:",
          "text": "Auditors do not necessarily tick and tie every single position held in a fund.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To make sure that every item in a ledger or in an inventory is accounted for and properly connected to other items to which it relates."
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          "ledger",
          "ledger"
        ],
        [
          "inventory",
          "inventory"
        ],
        [
          "accounted for",
          "account for"
        ],
        [
          "connect",
          "connect"
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        [
          "relate",
          "relate"
        ]
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(accounting) To make sure that every item in a ledger or in an inventory is accounted for and properly connected to other items to which it relates."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "accounting",
        "business",
        "finance"
      ]
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  "word": "tick and tie"
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      "form": "ticks and ties",
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        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ticking and tying",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ticked and tied",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
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    },
    {
      "form": "ticked and tied",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
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  "pos": "verb",
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        "en:Accounting"
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          "ref": "1997, James Edward Keogh, Solving the Year 2000 Problem, page 131:",
          "text": "The leveling diagram can be used as a tick and tie list for the year 2000 team to ensure that no system or piece of hardware that should be fixed is overlooked.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2003, Mary Pat McCarthy, Tim Flynn, Risk From the CEO and Board Perspective, page 22:",
          "text": "Rather than diving into the filing cabinets to tick and tie the paper trail, today's external audits start with a proper understanding of the business and the competitive environment in which a company operates.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2012, Jason A. Scharfman, Private Equity Operational Due Diligence, page 239:",
          "text": "Auditors do not necessarily tick and tie every single position held in a fund.",
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        }
      ],
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        "To make sure that every item in a ledger or in an inventory is accounted for and properly connected to other items to which it relates."
      ],
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          "accounting#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "ledger",
          "ledger"
        ],
        [
          "inventory",
          "inventory"
        ],
        [
          "accounted for",
          "account for"
        ],
        [
          "connect",
          "connect"
        ],
        [
          "relate",
          "relate"
        ]
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(accounting) To make sure that every item in a ledger or in an inventory is accounted for and properly connected to other items to which it relates."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "accounting",
        "business",
        "finance"
      ]
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