auditor
noun
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.
auditorship
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a word derived from
auditor.
Example Sentences
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Prior's two lines on his hoped-for auditorship; as put into the mouths of his St. John and Harley; —-Let that be done, which Matt. doth say.
From Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 6 by Samuel Richardson
After the return of the king in 1699 he resigned his offices in the government and succeeded his brother in the auditorship.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 7 "Gyantse" to "Hallel" by Various
Amos Kendall, a New Englander who had lately edited a Jackson paper in Kentucky, and who now found his reward in the fourth auditorship of the Treasury, was another.
From The Reign of Andrew Jackson by Frederic Austin Ogg
In 1843 Lockhart received the auditorship of the duchy of Lancaster, a post of some value.
From A History of Nineteenth Century Literature (1780-1895) by George Saintsbury
The Duke de Montellano, president of the Council of Castille, counterbalanced the authority, until then unlimited, of Porto-Carrero; the auditorship of finance, which had always appertained to the prime minister, being taken from him.
From Political Women, Vol. 2 by Sutherland Menzies
