Auditor Meaning
/ˈɔːdɪtɚ/Definition, CEFR level C1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
nounOne who audits bookkeeping accounts.
nounIn many jurisdictions, an elected or appointed public official in charge of the public accounts; a comptroller.
Sentence Examples
Normally, an organization would choose its own auditor — certainly someone with accounting experience.
The auditor picked up some anomalies in the company's accounts.
CEFR Practice Quiz
The independent ____ reviewed the accounts and found several discrepancies in the reports.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The ____ found several small errors in the company's tax reports.
Word Origin & History
From Anglo-Norman auditour, from Latin audītor (“hearer, auditor”).
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"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:
"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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CEFR Practice Quiz
The independent ____ reviewed the accounts and found several discrepancies in the reports.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The ____ found several small errors in the company's tax reports.