auditorship
- a word derived from auditor.
Example Sentences
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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 Ogg, Frederic Austin
Herr Rump was appointed auditor to the German section of the Tientsin-P'ukou Railway, but Mr. Bland tells us that "the auditorship on this railway has proved worse than useless as a preventive of official peculation."
From Political and Literary essays, 1908-1913 by Baring, Evelyn
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 Menzies, Sutherland, fl. 1840-1883
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 Saintsbury, George
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 Richardson, Samuel
