auditor

CEFRC1

/ˈɔːdɪtɚ/

noun

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In plain English

01
noun
A person who officially checks financial records or accounts.
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noun
Extra detail
In many jurisdictions, an elected or appointed public official in charge of the public accounts; a comptroller.

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.

At a glance

Sits at C1 on the CEFR scale

Deep Dive

Extra meanings

One who audits bookkeeping accounts.
One who audits an academic course; who attends the lectures but does not earn academic credit.
One trained to perform spiritual guidance procedures.

In context

Thus (as you will see with half an eye, my wise little auditors) these good old dames had fallen into a strange perplexity.
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.
As we crossed the hall the telephone-bell rang, and we were the involuntary auditors of Professor Challenger's end of the ensuing dialogue.

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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 (in...
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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From Anglo-Norman auditour, from Latin audītor (“hearer, auditor”).