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
Audit Bureau of Circulation, audition, auditionee, auditioner, auditive, auditor, Auditor General, auditorium, auditory, auditory aphasia, auditory area
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.
Alone|Marion Harland
Max, the only auditor of these declamations, was greatly excited by them.
Vassall Morton|Francis Parkman
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 Canadiana 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