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Definition of attendant in English: attendantnoun əˈtɛnd(ə)ntəˈtɛndənt 1A person employed to provide a service to the public in a particular place. Example sentencesExamples - All that's missing is for the coastguard to ask deckchair attendants to provide lunch-hour cover.
- Glasgow, which employs its own parking attendants, raised £6.6m in parking fines last year.
- There would be no incentive for road users to control the demand for parking, and there would also be no incentive for parking attendants to provide a service.
- The behaviour of council wardens is currently regulated by a civil code of conduct, and, in Swindon, attendants are provided with a handbook listing the things they must check before issuing a penalty notice.
- Service attendants consider themselves equal to their guests, and usually are not subservient.
- The car attendants did provide accurate and timely information after the mid-morning crossing accident but they had lost the trust of most of the passengers by then.
- There are around 20 parking attendants employed in Bolton who hand out 28,000 tickets a year.
- Half of the 60 coach service attendants and 40 auto mechanics were axed in the Department of Transportation.
- One writer recounted a story about a scientist who stopped at a garage in America and began to chat to the service attendant.
- ‘The parking attendant who has provided this information seems to be out to make mischief,’ said the spokesman.
- But he thought it could take between 18 months and two years before there is a new generation of council-employed car park attendants in North Wiltshire.
- The borough council says maintaining the pool is too expensive, and it would have to employ a qualified attendant on site at all times.
- They are hated by the public more than parking attendants and tax inspectors.
- It means re-establishing park wardens, bus conductors and platform attendants who provide some community control, and giving people a degree of hope and a sense of community.
- The forecourts were filthy, the attendants sloppy and the service virtually non-existent.
- He works at a hotel and was just recently promoted from bellhop to room service attendant.
- Talk with the health-care provider about your options, including home-care attendants, services and equipment.
- These days, Michael spends his time helping out flight attendants, traffic wardens, watch repairers and service station attendants.
- ‘Customers have come in saying there are massive queues in all the other garages,’ an attendant at the Cardiff Service Station said.
- Police officers are injured no more often than motel clerks or service station attendants.
Synonyms steward, waiter, waitress, porter, servant, menial, auxiliary, assistant, helper caretaker, keeper, concierge, warden North American waitperson, tender French garçon - 1.1 An assistant to an important person; a servant or courtier.
a mosaic of the Empress Theodora with her attendants Example sentencesExamples - Godric had been his personal attendant since his sixteenth year and the man had been just as preoccupied about the state of Briar's appearance then as he was now.
- For the first time in his life, liberated from the small army of attendants and servants, he has opened a door by himself.
- The courtiers, attendants, guards and servants sighed in audible relief.
- Apart from cooks and numerous assistants there were tailors, washermen, attendants to fan their masters, others to keep away fires, and entire hierarchies of housemaids.
- There were a few servants and attendants sitting at tables, talking.
- He has several servants and attendants who buzz around the hall, including several dogs.
- She looked past him, at the bustling servants and attendants entering and leaving the room.
- Her attendants and courtiers, with the aid of local tribals, scoured the foothills of Brahmagiri where they found the eternal Varaha spring.
- When his courtiers and attendants had bowed their way out of the room, Valentinian summoned Faustinus into an antechamber.
- She wasn't a local lord's daughter though, she lacked the herd of gossiping attendants and bodyguards; she had only her horse.
- With his father's money and his own ever-growing influence he began to adopt the trappings of power, wearing purple robes and employing scores of attendants.
- The courtiers and attendants were left to socialize amongst themselves, and most of the gentlemen found a lady or two to chat amiably with.
- I did not expect you to engage a personal attendant for me; after all in reality I am to be little more than a servant myself.
- The effect on the city of Edo was a permanent presence of noblemen and samurai with a huge staff of retainers, attendants and servants.
- There were some things she did not want to know about her attendants and their personal lives.
- Funds were provided for the eight-strong party of noblemen and ladies, their twelve gentlemen attendants and seventy-five servants.
Synonyms escort, companion, retainer, aide, assistant, personal assistant, right-hand man, right-hand woman, lady in waiting, equerry, squire, chaperone, guard, bodyguard, minder, custodian servant, manservant, valet, gentleman's gentleman, maidservant, maid, butler, footman, page, usher, lackey, flunkey North American houseman informal sidekick, skivvy North American informal body man Military, dated batman
2A person who is present on a particular occasion. he had become a regular attendant at chapel Example sentencesExamples - His black coat trailed after him gracefully as he went about greeting regular attendants to his event.
- Many Chinese firms have withdrawn from an electronics show in Las Vegas, after half of the visa applications by attendants were refused.
- They seemed as if they were regular attendants.
- During the conference several visiting and guest ministries set up tables throughout the foyer of the church to share their ministries with attendants of the conference.
- He presented certificates of participation to the course attendants.
- He was a regular attendant at Our Lady's Day Care Centre, Ballylanders and will be sadly missed by all the patrons.
- During a press conference held on May 10, attendants who participated in the protests said that they were loud but acted in a peaceful manner.
- She was also an avid bingo player and a regular attendant at the Adoration Hour in Ballon Church.
- They had even been so foolish as to slaughter a mere angel who had been visiting a local church to bestow blessings on the regular attendants.
- For the past five years I have been a regular attendant at the Algico Primary Schools Sports and the lack of parental support has always struck me.
- Professor Fergus, the only attendant from the Caribbean, will address the conference in his role as patron.
adjective əˈtɛnd(ə)ntəˈtɛndənt 1Occurring with or as a result of. the sea and its attendant attractions Example sentencesExamples - But some people have thoughts as well as feelings about this attendant effect of civilization.
- Government policy states that increases in water charges should result in an attendant reduction in commercial rates, yet, both continue to rise.
- In other words, significant progress might well be made, but fairly large numbers of troops might still be present, with the attendant casualties and costs.
- This is a youth-based musical culture, which means young promoters and the attendant lack of experience, professionalism and even ethical judgement.
- The contract forming a union of two people with its many attendant legal benefits, rules and expectations must be recorded.
- Then they become single moms, with the attendant consequences for them, their children and taxpayers alike.
- In addition, the reservoir and its attendant roads would provide greater access to this area of the park, thereby reducing fire danger.
- The encyclopaedia entry suggests a world of public access - with the attendant limitations to acquiring knowledge according to class and gender.
- Despite the magnitude of the problem and the attendant health concerns, the people of Punta Arenas had reason for cautious optimism back in 2000.
- That is, there aren't really very clean answers about when embryos should be considered persons, with all the attendant rights.
- Additionally, those people who smoke cannabis are also risking all the attendant problems from the use of tobacco on top of the cannabis and this needs to be thought about too.
- What is sad is that neither of them can attribute late diagnosis and the attendant complications to social deprivation, poor access to medical care, or any of the factors identified by Fraser et al.
- The last essay, by Blair Ruble, deals with the problems attendant on the creation of new civic or national symbols.
- If by ‘urban’ we mean the tendency to form society, founding cities with all their attendant rules, then the Harappan people succeeded admirably.
- The muscle biopsy can be accomplished as an outpatient procedure and carries the attendant risks of pain, bleeding, infection, and sensory loss.
- However, such a finding will lay the firm open to investigation with attendant costs for the company, and these costs may be very significant.
- They maintain that we are individual people from the moment of conception, with the attendant rights to life that entails.
- These creatures are touted as wonderful companions without the attendant problems caused by real pets and/or other human beings.
- Nowhere does he emphasize the special moral dangers attendant on an active engagement in war.
- The worry caused by the affair and the attendant concern over people's money leaves a bad taste, even if the entire saga was a misunderstanding and everyone gets their money back.
Synonyms accompanying, associated, related, connected, concomitant, accessory resultant, resulting, consequent 2(of a person) accompanying another as a companion or assistant. a child in a pram with attendant nursemaid Example sentencesExamples - Mr. Carter had overheard the attendant woman's conversation with Katerri.
- We stepped aside only for a large flock of freshly-shorn sheep that seemed, without attendant farmer or dog, on autopilot back to their field.
- I must confess that anything resembling objectivity was corrupted by the rather disturbed presence of my attendant companions.
- Titian preferred to paint the goddess Diana bathing in a curtained colonnade, with her entourage of nymphs and even an attendant slave girl and small dog.
- With the operation taking twice as long it stands to reason that there will have to be an extra refuse lorry with its attendant driver and loader.
- Queries on the database are checked immediately with the attendant physicians or nurses.
- He was, on the face of it, no more than an accessory to the theatrically gifted and great, an attendant lord but never Hamlet.
- Same ward at night and a toddler without an attendant parent screamed for a full hour while three members of staff chatted and laughed around the desk, until two parents got up and complained.
- Being an attendant lord must be the height of our ambition.
- The Prince would produce a rapid succession of sizzling chops, steaks and sausages not only for the guests but also for the attendant staff.
- Thus, the attendant female is assumed to be the social and genetic mother.
- Back in the sensorium, the attendant technicians peel adhesive sensors from his chest, temples, groin.
- As the ineffectual lawyer/husband, Wilson fades into the scenery like an attendant lord.
- The attendant physician, possibly overawed by the eminence of his charge, gave a warning which, in the wisdom of hindsight, he probably regretted for the rest of his life.
Synonyms accompanying, associated, related, connected, concomitant, accessory
Origin Late Middle English (as an adjective): from Old French, from atendre 'give one's attention to' (see attend). Rhymes appendant, ascendant, codependent, defendant, descendant, descendent, intendant, interdependent, pendant, pendent, splendent, superintendent, transcendent Definition of attendant in US English: attendantnounəˈtɛndəntəˈtendənt 1A person employed to provide a service to the public in a particular place. Example sentencesExamples - Half of the 60 coach service attendants and 40 auto mechanics were axed in the Department of Transportation.
- He works at a hotel and was just recently promoted from bellhop to room service attendant.
- Talk with the health-care provider about your options, including home-care attendants, services and equipment.
- The borough council says maintaining the pool is too expensive, and it would have to employ a qualified attendant on site at all times.
- The car attendants did provide accurate and timely information after the mid-morning crossing accident but they had lost the trust of most of the passengers by then.
- The behaviour of council wardens is currently regulated by a civil code of conduct, and, in Swindon, attendants are provided with a handbook listing the things they must check before issuing a penalty notice.
- All that's missing is for the coastguard to ask deckchair attendants to provide lunch-hour cover.
- ‘Customers have come in saying there are massive queues in all the other garages,’ an attendant at the Cardiff Service Station said.
- One writer recounted a story about a scientist who stopped at a garage in America and began to chat to the service attendant.
- These days, Michael spends his time helping out flight attendants, traffic wardens, watch repairers and service station attendants.
- But he thought it could take between 18 months and two years before there is a new generation of council-employed car park attendants in North Wiltshire.
- It means re-establishing park wardens, bus conductors and platform attendants who provide some community control, and giving people a degree of hope and a sense of community.
- They are hated by the public more than parking attendants and tax inspectors.
- Service attendants consider themselves equal to their guests, and usually are not subservient.
- ‘The parking attendant who has provided this information seems to be out to make mischief,’ said the spokesman.
- The forecourts were filthy, the attendants sloppy and the service virtually non-existent.
- Police officers are injured no more often than motel clerks or service station attendants.
- There are around 20 parking attendants employed in Bolton who hand out 28,000 tickets a year.
- Glasgow, which employs its own parking attendants, raised £6.6m in parking fines last year.
- There would be no incentive for road users to control the demand for parking, and there would also be no incentive for parking attendants to provide a service.
Synonyms steward, waiter, waitress, porter, servant, menial, auxiliary, assistant, helper - 1.1 An assistant to an important person; a servant or courtier.
Example sentencesExamples - He has several servants and attendants who buzz around the hall, including several dogs.
- Apart from cooks and numerous assistants there were tailors, washermen, attendants to fan their masters, others to keep away fires, and entire hierarchies of housemaids.
- The courtiers, attendants, guards and servants sighed in audible relief.
- There were some things she did not want to know about her attendants and their personal lives.
- With his father's money and his own ever-growing influence he began to adopt the trappings of power, wearing purple robes and employing scores of attendants.
- Godric had been his personal attendant since his sixteenth year and the man had been just as preoccupied about the state of Briar's appearance then as he was now.
- For the first time in his life, liberated from the small army of attendants and servants, he has opened a door by himself.
- Funds were provided for the eight-strong party of noblemen and ladies, their twelve gentlemen attendants and seventy-five servants.
- I did not expect you to engage a personal attendant for me; after all in reality I am to be little more than a servant myself.
- Her attendants and courtiers, with the aid of local tribals, scoured the foothills of Brahmagiri where they found the eternal Varaha spring.
- When his courtiers and attendants had bowed their way out of the room, Valentinian summoned Faustinus into an antechamber.
- She wasn't a local lord's daughter though, she lacked the herd of gossiping attendants and bodyguards; she had only her horse.
- The effect on the city of Edo was a permanent presence of noblemen and samurai with a huge staff of retainers, attendants and servants.
- She looked past him, at the bustling servants and attendants entering and leaving the room.
- The courtiers and attendants were left to socialize amongst themselves, and most of the gentlemen found a lady or two to chat amiably with.
- There were a few servants and attendants sitting at tables, talking.
Synonyms escort, companion, retainer, aide, assistant, personal assistant, right-hand man, right-hand woman, lady in waiting, equerry, squire, chaperone, guard, bodyguard, minder, custodian
2A person who is present at an event, meeting, or function. he had become a regular attendant at chapel Example sentencesExamples - For the past five years I have been a regular attendant at the Algico Primary Schools Sports and the lack of parental support has always struck me.
- They had even been so foolish as to slaughter a mere angel who had been visiting a local church to bestow blessings on the regular attendants.
- Professor Fergus, the only attendant from the Caribbean, will address the conference in his role as patron.
- They seemed as if they were regular attendants.
- Many Chinese firms have withdrawn from an electronics show in Las Vegas, after half of the visa applications by attendants were refused.
- He presented certificates of participation to the course attendants.
- During the conference several visiting and guest ministries set up tables throughout the foyer of the church to share their ministries with attendants of the conference.
- During a press conference held on May 10, attendants who participated in the protests said that they were loud but acted in a peaceful manner.
- He was a regular attendant at Our Lady's Day Care Centre, Ballylanders and will be sadly missed by all the patrons.
- His black coat trailed after him gracefully as he went about greeting regular attendants to his event.
- She was also an avid bingo player and a regular attendant at the Adoration Hour in Ballon Church.
adjectiveəˈtɛndəntəˈtendənt 1Occurring with or as a result of; accompanying. the sea and its attendant attractions he warns against the dangers attendant on solitary life Example sentencesExamples - The encyclopaedia entry suggests a world of public access - with the attendant limitations to acquiring knowledge according to class and gender.
- In addition, the reservoir and its attendant roads would provide greater access to this area of the park, thereby reducing fire danger.
- This is a youth-based musical culture, which means young promoters and the attendant lack of experience, professionalism and even ethical judgement.
- In other words, significant progress might well be made, but fairly large numbers of troops might still be present, with the attendant casualties and costs.
- The contract forming a union of two people with its many attendant legal benefits, rules and expectations must be recorded.
- The worry caused by the affair and the attendant concern over people's money leaves a bad taste, even if the entire saga was a misunderstanding and everyone gets their money back.
- Despite the magnitude of the problem and the attendant health concerns, the people of Punta Arenas had reason for cautious optimism back in 2000.
- But some people have thoughts as well as feelings about this attendant effect of civilization.
- Government policy states that increases in water charges should result in an attendant reduction in commercial rates, yet, both continue to rise.
- Additionally, those people who smoke cannabis are also risking all the attendant problems from the use of tobacco on top of the cannabis and this needs to be thought about too.
- Then they become single moms, with the attendant consequences for them, their children and taxpayers alike.
- However, such a finding will lay the firm open to investigation with attendant costs for the company, and these costs may be very significant.
- The muscle biopsy can be accomplished as an outpatient procedure and carries the attendant risks of pain, bleeding, infection, and sensory loss.
- They maintain that we are individual people from the moment of conception, with the attendant rights to life that entails.
- What is sad is that neither of them can attribute late diagnosis and the attendant complications to social deprivation, poor access to medical care, or any of the factors identified by Fraser et al.
- That is, there aren't really very clean answers about when embryos should be considered persons, with all the attendant rights.
- These creatures are touted as wonderful companions without the attendant problems caused by real pets and/or other human beings.
- The last essay, by Blair Ruble, deals with the problems attendant on the creation of new civic or national symbols.
- Nowhere does he emphasize the special moral dangers attendant on an active engagement in war.
- If by ‘urban’ we mean the tendency to form society, founding cities with all their attendant rules, then the Harappan people succeeded admirably.
Synonyms accompanying, associated, related, connected, concomitant, accessory - 1.1 (of a person or animal) accompanying another as a companion or assistant.
a pair of blind tourists with their attendant dogs Example sentencesExamples - We stepped aside only for a large flock of freshly-shorn sheep that seemed, without attendant farmer or dog, on autopilot back to their field.
- Same ward at night and a toddler without an attendant parent screamed for a full hour while three members of staff chatted and laughed around the desk, until two parents got up and complained.
- The attendant physician, possibly overawed by the eminence of his charge, gave a warning which, in the wisdom of hindsight, he probably regretted for the rest of his life.
- He was, on the face of it, no more than an accessory to the theatrically gifted and great, an attendant lord but never Hamlet.
- Thus, the attendant female is assumed to be the social and genetic mother.
- Titian preferred to paint the goddess Diana bathing in a curtained colonnade, with her entourage of nymphs and even an attendant slave girl and small dog.
- The Prince would produce a rapid succession of sizzling chops, steaks and sausages not only for the guests but also for the attendant staff.
- Back in the sensorium, the attendant technicians peel adhesive sensors from his chest, temples, groin.
- I must confess that anything resembling objectivity was corrupted by the rather disturbed presence of my attendant companions.
- Being an attendant lord must be the height of our ambition.
- Mr. Carter had overheard the attendant woman's conversation with Katerri.
- As the ineffectual lawyer/husband, Wilson fades into the scenery like an attendant lord.
- Queries on the database are checked immediately with the attendant physicians or nurses.
- With the operation taking twice as long it stands to reason that there will have to be an extra refuse lorry with its attendant driver and loader.
Synonyms accompanying, associated, related, connected, concomitant, accessory
Origin Late Middle English (as an adjective): from Old French, from atendre ‘give one's attention to’ (see attend). |