Auditor
['ɔːdɪtə] or ['ɔdɪtɚ]
Definition
(noun.) a qualified accountant who inspects the accounting records and practices of a business or other organization.
(noun.) a student who attends a course but does not take it for credit.
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Definition
(a.) A hearer or listener.
(a.) A person appointed and authorized to audit or examine an account or accounts, compare the charges with the vouchers, examine the parties and witnesses, allow or reject charges, and state the balance.
(a.) One who hears judicially, as in an audience court.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Hearer, listener.[2]. Examiner of accounts.
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Examples
- Never mind the year,' said the impatient auditor; 'what about her? Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- This address caused a considerable change in the physiognomy of my auditor. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- He felt that he was performing a striking piece of scrupulosity in the judgment of his auditor, and a penitential act in the eyes of God. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- And as it was nearly dark, and, after all, Miss Keeldar was no formidable auditor, Caroline went through it. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- In order to form an idea of the extent of this power imagine an auditor in a large music hall where a full band and chorus are performing. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- A visible impression was produced upon the auditors by this part of the learned Serjeant's address. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- Even what she read and said seemed to us to be ill-chosen for such auditors, if it had been imparted ever so modestly and with ever so much tact. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- And others who are mute auditors. Plato. The Republic.
- This, notwithstanding it was a fundamental error, was pardoned, and excited an expression of loud applause from the gallery auditors. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- The intense earnestness and emphasis with which this was said were very impressive to the auditors. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- I hold a far different opinion, as most of these will who have been auditors of your profound knowledge of life this morning. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Law, you niggers, she would say to some of her auditors, does you know you 's all sinners? Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- She cast up her eyes, while wonder held her auditors mute; then, as if carried away by her feelings, she cried--My brother! Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
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