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state auditor

(also State Auditor)
 
 
noun [C]

Definition

ACCOUNTING, GOVERNMENT in the US, a person whose job is to check the financial records of a state, to make certain that its accounts are being managed correctly: State auditors asserted that Baltimore schools misused $18.3 million in federal funds. the state auditor's office → Compare district auditor
(Definition of state auditor noun from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

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