Auditor

Definitions

1. One who audits bookkeeping accounts.
2. In many jurisdictions, an elected or appointed public official in charge of the public accounts; a comptroller.
3. One who audits an academic course; who attends the lectures but does not earn academic credit.
4. One who listens, typically as a member of an audience.
   rare
5. One trained to perform spiritual guidance procedures.

Equivalents

Examples

“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.”

“Thus (as you will see⟳ with half an eye, my wise little auditors) these good old dames had fallen into a strange perplexity.”

“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.”

“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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