auditor

Plural: auditors

Noun

• A person who conducts an official inspection of accounts.
• someone who listens attentively
• a student who attends a course but does not take it for credit
• a qualified accountant who inspects the accounting records and practices of a business or other organization
• One who audits bookkeeping accounts.
• In many jurisdictions, an elected or appointed public official in charge of the public accounts; a comptroller.
• One who audits an academic course; who attends the lectures but does not earn academic credit.
• One who listens, typically as a member of an audience.
• One trained to perform spiritual guidance procedures.

Examples

• She played Words with Friends with the precision of an auditor, checking every possible score.

Synonyms

attender, hearer, listener