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attendant

[uh-ten-duhnt]

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noun

a person who attends another, as to perform a service.

Chiefly British. an usher or clerk.

a corollary or concomitant thing or quality.

a person who is present, as at a meeting.

adjective

being present or in attendance; accompanying.

consequent; concomitant; associated; related: winter holidays and attendant parties; war and its attendant evils; poverty and its attendant hardships.

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Origin:
1350–1400; Middle English < Middle French, present participle of attendre to notice, await. See attend, -ant

Related forms

at·tend·ant·ly, adverb

su·per·at·tend·ant, noun, adjective

un·at·tend·ant, adjective

Synonyms
1. escort, companion, comrade; follower, retainer, servant. 3. accompaniment, consequence.

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As the attendant ran off, the detective moved his car so that it blocked the entrance.

Everybody's unscathed physically except for one flight attendant who sustained-as they say-minor injuries.

So introduce fat/sugar/salt taxes with all their attendant complexities.

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As the attendant ran off, the detective moved his car so that it blocked the entrance.

Everybody's unscathed physically except for one flight attendant who sustained-as they say-minor injuries.

So introduce fat/sugar/salt taxes with all their attendant complexities.

The initial bolt of light woke up a napping train station attendant in time for a second, smaller blast.

The drought and attendant food crisis come as no surprise, given political instability as well.

Working as he does with large format cameras and their attendant paraphernalia puts special demands on the photographer.

Some newer operating systems-and all their attendant devices-simply don't work on older laptops.

The attendant gently picks him up and deposits him back on the bench.

That's because the money, and the attendant corruption, isn't there…yet.

On my last flight, someone asked the flight attendant whether the flight was full.

Clearly the spring once held hippos and all their attendant life, but today its waters are nearly lifeless.

Monday morning and its attendant pressures-the rush to get out of the house, the long commute, the bustle of the office-loom.

One flight attendant dies after being blown out of the airplane.

Ineffective management leads to several drivers of reduced efficiency and attendant increases in tuition.

Seems the attendant was too lazy to provide customer service.

More than one local painting has featured ferries and their attendant seagulls.

Sony also added a handy monitor button that lets you hear external sound such as a flight attendant asking if you want a drink.

The online environment, with its attendant interest in modern learning and evaluation sciences has changed.

You're either part of the faculty guild, with attendant rights, or you're a serf.

Locust swarms devastate crops and cause major agricultural damage and attendant human misery-famine and starvation.

From then on it was understood that the brain and its attendant peripheral nerves ran on electricity.

And as insurance costs rise, the ranks of the uninsured swell, with the attendant loss of access to care.

Another stayed on the job despite alarming a flight attendant with his behavior.

She is described as an extremely attractive former dancer and flight attendant with long brown hair.

Instantly suspicious, the stand's attendant examined the bill.

The point of a new technology is to save on labor costs and all the attendant costs with actual people.

The greater entertainment-industry complex and its attendant marketing hype is noticeably.

Unless, of course, you're the poor phone attendant whose job it is to talk to angry nutcases all day long.

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World English Dictionary

attendant (əˈtɛndənt)

—n
1.	a person who accompanies or waits upon another
2.	a person employed to assist, guide, or provide a service for others, esp for the general public: a lavatory attendant
3.	a person who is present
4.	a logical consequence or natural accompaniment: hatred is often an attendant of jealousy

—*adj*
5.	being in attendance
6.	associated; accompanying; related: attendant problems

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Word Origin & History

attendant

1550s, "one who waits upon," from pp. adj. (mid-15c.), from O.Fr. atendant, prp. of atendre (see attend). The adj. originally meant "attentive;" sense of "accompanying in a dependant position" is from 1610s.

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