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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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
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
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 Evelyn Baring
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
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
