paper trail
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nounDefinition of PAPER TRAIL
: documents (as financial records) from which a person's actions may be traced or opinions learned
See Examples of PAPER TRAIL
- They covered up the fraud and were careful not to leave a paper trail.
First Known Use of PAPER TRAIL
1955
Rhymes with PAPER TRAIL
abigail, altar rail, armored scale, audit trail, aventail, beavertail, bristletail, button quail, clapper rail, coffin nail, Corriedale, cottontail, countervail, Coverdale, direct mail, disentail, draggle-tail, fairy tale, farthingale, fingernail, forestaysail, gaff-topsail, galingale, garage sale, ginger ale, Holy Grail, humpback whale, Irish mail, killer whale, macroscale, martingale, microscale, monorail, montadale, nanoscale, nightingale, Nightingale, old wives' tale, overscale, pilot whale, ponytail, purple scale, romeldale, rummage sale, sliding scale, solar sail, studding sail, Sunnyvale, swallowtail, tattletale, tooth and nail, tripletail, trundle-tail, vapor trail, yellowtail
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