auditor

American  

[aw-di-ter] / ˈɔ dɪ tər /

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.

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auditor British  

/ ˈɔːdɪtə /

noun

1. a person qualified to audit accounts

2. a person who hears or listens

3. a registered student who attends a class that is not an official part of his course of study, without actively participating it

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Other Word Forms

• auditorial adjective
• auditorship noun
• subauditor noun
• superauditor noun

Etymology

Origin of auditor

First recorded in 1300–50; Middle English auditour, from Anglo-French, from Latin audītor “hearer,” from audī(re) “to hear” + -tor -tor

Example Sentences

The AI auditor, for instance, would perform regular checkups—weekly, monthly or even daily, depending on the industry—to see if the AI systems produced results that were unfairly skewed in some direction.

From The Wall Street Journal

Developers would also have to implement and disclose safeguards to prevent such harm, retain a third party auditor to review them, and publish the auditor’s report.

From The Wall Street Journal

There are complications that AI adds to the business development relationship required under the auditor independence rules.

From The Wall Street Journal

As the modern theater embraced realism, plays were carefully designed not to wrench their auditors from their waking dream.

From Los Angeles Times

It happened on the day auditors arrived to go through the accounts at his branch in Bexhill on Sea in East Sussex in 2014.

From BBC

Related Words

• accountant
• actuary
• bookkeeper