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attendance

[ uh-ten-duhns ]

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noun

the act of attending.
the persons or number of persons present:
an attendance of more than 300 veterans.

attendance

/ əˈtɛndəns /

1325–75; Middle English < Anglo-French, Middle French. See attend, -ance

dance attendance, to be obsequious in one's attentions or service; attend constantly:
He was given a larger office and several assistants to dance attendance on him.

Mallory, Skolnik, and Simmons were all in attendance Wednesday for the City Hall press conference.

In attendance was supermodel Elle Macpherson and king of pop Michael Jackson, who also performed.

Her attendance will bring in more parishioners and thus more money to fund church programs.

“You have a drink with Mitch McConnell,” he pleaded with all two thousand-plus in attendance.

Affordability (20%): Net price of attendance after deducting grants and scholarship aid (NCES).

Each evening Mr. Levi was in attendance, and this day, according to rule, she went down to the grand old dining-room.

I would be very much obliged to you to say if Mr. Halse is to pay me for my past attendance at St. Ives about the breakwater.

In 1811 the growing hostility of Russia required the attendance of the Prince of Eckmhl at the headquarters of his command.

Again the “Cavalry” were in attendance and escorted the party to the quarries and back.

Sir Richard Croft, a fashionable accoucheur of that time, was in attendance upon her with other physicians.

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