Meaning

3 senses

  1. (idiomatic)A written record, history, or collection of evidence.

    Keep a good paper trail in case anyone asks you why you arrived at that conclusion.

    the written evidence of someone's activities

  2. (idiomatic)Records left by a person or organization in the course of activities.

  3. (broadly)Physical evidence of something that occurred in the past.

Examples

2 sentences

  1. I don't want to leave any paper trails.

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  2. The bronze horse lacks the kind of paper trail that typically accompanies ancient artifacts legally exported out of Greece.

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Translations

1 languages

Forms

plural: paper trails

Word family

2 related words
Relatedaudit traildata trail

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
papayaB2paperA1paperbackpaperboy

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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