auditor

[ aw-di-ter ]

/ ˈɔ dɪ tər /

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noun

a person appointed and authorized to examine accounts and accounting records, compare the charges with the vouchers, verify balance sheet and income items, and state the result.

a university student registered for a course without credit and without obligation to do work assigned to the class.

a hearer; listener.

Origin of auditor

1300–50; Middle English auditour < Anglo-French < Latin audītor hearer, equivalent to audī(re) to hear + -tor -tor

OTHER WORDS FROM auditor

au·di·tor·ship, noun sub·au·di·tor, noun su·per·au·di·tor, noun

Words nearby auditor

audit trail, audition, auditionee, auditioner, auditive, auditor, auditor general, auditorium, auditory, auditory aphasia, auditory area

Example sentences from the Web for auditor

Ernst won her race for Montgomery County auditor, a deceptively powerful position in local Hawkeye State politics, in 2005.

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Once the document was produced, the auditor checked it off his list, DiPascali said.

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Six out of seven statewide elected officials, from governor on down to auditor, are Democrats.

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And for their services -- as Autonomy's auditor -- they got a nice fee.

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Bar-Fields had served two years in the Navy and now worked two jobs back in Texas, one of them as a night auditor at a hotel.

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He was an auditor of Josephine's Read's garbled story of our church-yard adventure; he had heard a true statement from me.

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Max, the only auditor of these declamations, was greatly excited by them.

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So Maurice told the story, which amused his auditor not a little, especially when he tried on the mustache in his presence.

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"But that would have been defiance of the orders of the Navy Department," responded his auditor, aghast.

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The royal decree having been issued, the archbishop yielded, and absolved the said auditor, Marcos Çapatta.

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British Dictionary definitions for auditor

auditor

/ (ˈɔːdɪtə) /

noun

a person qualified to audit accounts

a person who hears or listens

Australian, US and Canadian a registered student who attends a class that is not an official part of his course of study, without actively participating it

Derived forms of auditor

auditorial, adjective

Word Origin for auditor

C14: from Old French auditeur, from Latin audītor a hearer

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