n. Audience; hearing.n. Official examination and verification of accounts or claims; an examination into accounts or dealings with money or property; especially, an examination of accounts by proper officers, or persons appointed for that purpose, who compare the charges with the vouchers, examine witnesses, and state the result.n. Hence A calling to account; an examination into one's actions.n. An account or a statement of account; a balance-sheet.n. A periodical auditing or settlement of accounts; hence, receipts; revenues.To make audit of; examine and verify by reference to vouchers, as an account or accounts: as, to audit the accounts of a treasurer.To examine into the correctness of an account; act as an auditor.