auditor

/ˈɔːdɪtɚ/

auditor noun: one who audits bookkeeping accounts.

Noun

auditor (plural auditors)

One who audits bookkeeping accounts.
In many jurisdictions, an elected or appointed public official in charge of the public accounts; a comptroller.
One who audits an academic course; who attends the lectures but does not earn academic credit.
(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)...
One trained to perform spiritual guidance procedures.

लेखा परीक्षक, लेखापरीक्षक, ऑडिटर

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लेखापरीक्षक, लेखा परीक्षक, लेखापालक

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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.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:

plural	auditors
alternative form (obsolete)	auditour

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

What does auditor mean?: Auditor means one who audits bookkeeping accounts.
What is auditor in Hindi?: Auditor in Hindi is लेखा परीक्षक, लेखापरीक्षक, ऑडिटर. See Auditor meaning in Hindi.
How do you use auditor in a sentence?: Sampson's tongue was still flying with rapidity, as if his auditors had not been void of a number, while Mr.
What part of speech is auditor?: Auditor is a noun.
How do you pronounce auditor?: Auditor is pronounced /ˈɔːdɪtɚ/.
What is the plural of auditor?: The plural of auditor is auditors.

Last updated: 2026-09-02

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