flight attendant

noun
an airline employee who serves meals, attends to passengers' comfort, etc., during a flight.
Also called cabin attendant.


Origin:
1955–60

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flight attendant
 
n
a person who attends to the needs of passengers on a commercial flight

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a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
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Example sentences
On my last flight, someone asked the flight attendant whether the flight was
  full.
Tucker also doubts today's flight attendant will be serving tomorrow's meals.
In the back of the airplane another flight attendant was on the phone.
One flight attendant was in the forward galley and the other two flight
  attendants were in the aft galley.
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