auditor
noun/ˈɔːdɪtɚ/
Etymology From Anglo-Norman auditour, from Latin audītor (“hearer, auditor”).
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.
4
Rare One who listens, typically as a member of an audience.
- There is another of better notice, and whispered through the world with some attention; credulous and vulgar auditors readily believing it, and more judicious and distinctive heads not altogether rejecting it.1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:
- Thus (as you will see with half an eye, my wise little auditors) these good old dames had fallen into a strange perplexity.1851 June–July (date written), Nathaniel Hawthorne, “The Gorgon’s Head”, in A Wonder-Book for Girls and Boys, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, published November 1851 (indicated as 1852), →OCLC, page 32:
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- Sampson's tongue was still flying with rapidity, as if his auditors had not been void of a number, while Mr. Alboni and Natalie were holding a consultation aside.1859, Ferna Vale, Natalie; or, A Gem Among the Sea-Weeds:
- As we crossed the hall the telephone-bell rang, and we were the involuntary auditors of Professor Challenger's end of the ensuing dialogue.1913, Arthur Conan Doyle, “(please specify the page)”, in The Poison Belt […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:
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Scientology, Lifestyle, Religion One trained to perform spiritual guidance procedures.
- Derived terms
- auditorship, coauditor, First Amendment auditor, frauditor, night auditor, subauditor, tax auditor