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auditor
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. someone who listens attentively [syn: hearer , listener , attender ] a student who attends a course but does not take it for credit a qualified accountant who inspects the accounting records and practices of a business or other organization
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Auditor \Au"di*tor\, n. [L. auditor, fr. audire. See Audible , a.] A hearer or listener. --Macaulay. A person appointed and authorized to audit or examine an account or accounts, compare the charges with the vouchers, examine the parties and witnesses, ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 One who audits bookkeeping accounts. 2 In many jurisdictions, an elected or appointed public official in charge of the public accounts; a comptroller. 3 One who audits an academic course; who attends the lectures but does not earn academic credit. ...
Usage examples of auditor.
Cardinal Acquaviva was made acquainted with these circumstances at nine this morning through the auditor you met in my room, and he promised to have the person sent away unless she belonged to his household.
Miles was not, he realized belatedly, nearly as well up on the fine points of Barrayaran law as an Imperial Auditor ought to be.
Paul Anthony Heaven had also played the threatening supervisor in Wave Bye-Bye to the Bureaucrat, the Massachusetts State Commissioner for Beach and Water Safety in Safe Boating Is No Accident, and a Parkinsonian corporate auditor in Low-Temperature Civics.
Lord Bute had founded two papers, The Briton and The Auditor, and had set up the novelist Tobias Smollett as editor of the former.
I had scarcely shut the door, when an agent of police came and told me that the auditor had something to say to me, and would be glad to see me at an early hour next morning.
While he was speaking, one of the auditors of the Vicar-General called to enquire when he could see the Abby Gama.
Early the next morning a police official brought me a letter from the auditor, informing me that as he could not, from the nature of the case, oblige me to pay, he was forced to warn me to leave Florence in three days, and Tuscany in seven.
Petersburg, and I did not speak German much better then than I do now, so I had a good deal of difficulty in making myself understood, and usually excited my auditors to laughter.
Marnoo, that all-attractive personage, having satisfied his hunger and inhaled a few whiffs from a pipe which was handed to him, launched out into an harangue which completely enchained the attention of his auditors.
Daily estafettes, and frequently the useless auditors of the Council of State, brought him reports more or less correct, and curious disclosures which were frequently the invention of the police.
When we were left alone he gave me an account of his interview with the auditor, who had come to entreat his eminence to give orders to turn out of his palace a person who was supposed to have taken refuge in it about midnight.
He gave me a very friendly reception, but he seemed alarmed when, in reply to his question, I told him that my dispute with the auditor had not been arranged.
Costa told me that the auditor had revenged my contempt of his orders by forbidding the post authorities to furnish any horses for my carriage.
Cyrus Harding, who had been much mixed up with the affairs of the Union, greatly interested his auditors by his recitals, his views, and his prognostics.
Tiresome for the neonate, and more tiresome still for the auditor who is not experiencing it but only listening to interminable woes.