AUDITOR

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does auditor mean? 

• AUDITOR (noun)
  The noun AUDITOR has 3 senses:

1. someone who listens attentively

2. a student who attends a course but does not take it for credit

3. a qualified accountant who inspects the accounting records and practices of a business or other organization

  Familiarity information: AUDITOR used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• AUDITOR (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Someone who listens attentively

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

attender; auditor; hearer; listener

Hypernyms ("auditor" is a kind of...):

beholder; observer; perceiver; percipient (a person who becomes aware (of things or events) through the senses)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "auditor"):

eavesdropper (a secret listener to private conversations)

Holonyms ("auditor" is a member of...):

audience (a gathering of spectators or listeners at a (usually public) performance)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A student who attends a course but does not take it for credit

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("auditor" is a kind of...):

educatee; pupil; student (a learner who is enrolled in an educational institution)

Derivation:

audit (attend academic courses without getting credit)

Sense 3

Meaning:

A qualified accountant who inspects the accounting records and practices of a business or other organization

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("auditor" is a kind of...):

accountant; comptroller; controller (someone who maintains and audits business accounts)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "auditor"):

internal auditor (an auditor who is an employee of the company whose records are audited and who provides information to the management and board of directors)

Derivation:

audit (examine carefully for accuracy with the intent of verification)

 Context examples 

This address caused a considerable change in the physiognomy of my own auditor.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

A person who is employed by a study sponsor or by a contract research organization (CRO), operates independently from the clinical study site and functions as a monitor, and/or auditor, and/or a project director within a particular trial or institution.

(Clinical Research Associate, NCI Thesaurus)

I never presumed to speak, except in answer to a question; and then I did it with inward regret, because it was a loss of so much time for improving myself; but I was infinitely delighted with the station of an humble auditor in such conversations, where nothing passed but what was useful, expressed in the fewest and most significant words; where, as I have already said, the greatest decency was observed, without the least degree of ceremony; where no person spoke without being pleased himself, and pleasing his companions; where there was no interruption, tediousness, heat, or difference of sentiments.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

Whole pages of it are filled with masses of figures, generally single numbers added up in batches, and then the totals added in batches again, as though he were focussing some account, as the auditors put it.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

And so saying, she walked hastily out of the room, leaving awkward feelings to more than one, but exciting small compassion in any except Fanny, who had been a quiet auditor of the whole, and who could not think of her as under the agitations of jealousy without great pity.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

She appeared to be on her high horse to-night; both her words and her air seemed intended to excite not only the admiration, but the amazement of her auditors: she was evidently bent on striking them as something very dashing and daring indeed.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

The nature of her commendation, in the present case, however, happened to be particularly ill-suited to the feelings of two thirds of her auditors, and was so very unexhilarating to Edward, that he very soon got up to go away.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)