auditor
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dɪ noun
1.
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.
2.
a university student registered for a course without credit and without obligation to do work assigned to the class.
3.
a hearer; listener.
Origin:
1300–50; Middle English auditour < Anglo-French < Latin audītor hearer, equivalent to audī(re) to hear + -tor -tor
1300–50; Middle English auditour < Anglo-French < Latin audītor hearer, equivalent to audī(re) to hear + -tor -tor
Related forms
au·di·tor·ship, noun
sub·au·di·tor, noun
su·per·au·di·tor, noun
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Auditor
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| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
| an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle. |
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World English Dictionary
auditor (ˈɔːdɪtə) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —n | |
| 1. | a person qualified to audit accounts |
| 2. | a person who hears or listens |
| 3. | (Austral), (US), (Canadian) a registered student who attends a class that is not an official part of his course of study, without actively participating it |
| [C14: from Old French auditeur, from Latin audītor a hearer] | |
| audi'torial | |
| —adj | |
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Word Origin & History
auditor
late 14c., "a listener," from Anglo-Fr. auditour (Fr. auditeur; O.Fr. oieor "listener," 13c.), from L. auditor "a hearer," from auditus, pp. of audire "to hear" (see audience). Meaning "receiver and examiner of accounts" (late 14c.) is because this process formerly was done, and vouched for, orally.
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Example sentences
There may be a wide range of possible estimates, and the auditor now must simply conclude the estimates are within that range.
Otherwise, if you aren't an auditor it's a pretty expensive piece of paper for no good reason.
It's not often that a fired auditor and a client get into a public squabble over who-said-what-when.
The auditor will ask questions about your personal habits and perform a series of tests.
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