auditor

as in magistrate
a person appointed by a court to prepare an account of financial matters in a civil case

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Recent Examples of auditor In 2020, he was elected state auditor, with his term ending concurrently with the beginning of his House term. The Hill, 11 Dec. 2024 Every American household can leverage the incentives of the Inflation Reduction Act and work with a professional energy auditor to make their homes safer, more comfortable, and energy efficient. Brynn Cooksey, Forbes, 30 Dec. 2024 ProPublica has added the ability to find nonprofit organizations that auditors have flagged as having serious financial or control deficiencies. Andrea Suozzo, ProPublica, 23 Dec. 2024 Follow the money: The property is valued at $5.7 million, per the county auditor. Andrew King, Axios, 16 Dec. 2024 See all Example Sentences for auditor 
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Noun
  • Wiretapped conversations on those phones led prosecutors to suspect Sarkozy and Herzog of promising magistrate Gilbert Azibert a job in Monaco in exchange for leaking information about another legal case involving Sarkozy.
    Sylvie Corbet, Los Angeles Times, 18 Dec. 2024
  • Both properties were the subject of an eviction ruling on Nov. 6 in Hamilton County where a magistrate gave Frisch’s seven days to leave.
    Alexander Coolidge, The Enquirer, 10 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • Vahe was an English major at the University of Pennsylvania and earned his master’s degree at Mizzou.
    Vahe Gregorian, Kansas City Star, 19 Jan. 2025
  • Camila graduated from Arizona State University with a master’s degree in mass communication.
    Hannah Poukish, Sacramento Bee, 17 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Following the Chiefs’ 23-14 win Saturday over the Houston Texans, referee Clay Martin spoke with a pool reporter about two roughing penalties on hits to quarterback Patrick Mahomes.
    Pete Grathoff, Kansas City Star, 20 Jan. 2025
  • Fighters like Dominick Cruz seemingly hate referee intervention and would prefer to be put to sleep with a strike than to have a fight stopped.
    Brian Mazique, Forbes, 20 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • The judge specifically said, is there any lawyer who could claim this order was constitutional?
    ABC News, ABC News, 26 Jan. 2025
  • What have the judges said about American Idol season 23?
    Jackie Tempera, People.com, 26 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • The Florida jurist, who delivered several Trump-friendly rulings in the classified documents case, ordered the Department of Justice to keep the report sealed until an appeals court can assess objections to its release lodged by Trump and two co-defendants.
    Dave Goldiner, New York Daily News, 7 Jan. 2025
  • An elder brother, Spiros Simitis, became a leading jurist specializing in data protection in Germany.
    Alan Cowell, New York Times, 5 Jan. 2025

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“Auditor.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/auditor. Accessed 30 Jan. 2025.

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