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Noun
/əˈtendənt/,
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attendants, plural;
  1. A person employed to provide a service to the public in a particular place
    • - a flight attendant
    • - a gas station attendant
  2. An assistant to an important person; a servant or courtier

  3. A person who is present at an event, meeting, or function
    • - he had become a regular attendant at chapel
  1. (attendant) being present (at meeting or event etc.) "attendant members of the congreation"
  2. (attendant) someone who waits on or tends to or attends to the needs of another
  3. (attendant) a person who is present and participates in a meeting; "he was a regular attender at department meetings"; "the gathering satisfied both organizers and attendees"
  4. (attendant) following or accompanying as a consequence; "an excessive growth of bureaucracy, with attendant problems"; "snags incidental to the changeover in management"; "attendant circumstances"; "the period of tension and consequent need for military preparedness"; "the ensuant response to ...
  5. (attendant) accompaniment: an event or situation that happens at the same time as or in connection with another
  6. (attendant) One who attends; one who works with or watches something; Going with; associated; concomitant
  7. (attendant) A person who helps or serves other people.
  8. (Attendant) This is the person who may be stationed outside a designated confined space and who will monitor the authorized entrants, under certain conditions.
  9. (Attendant) A node designed to provide the service interface between a client and the local domain (service element).
  10. (Attendant (Auto Attendant)) An automatic response system, such as a voice presenting options, such as press 3 for sales, 4 for parts, etc.  An attendant can handle incoming calls and direst them to the proper person, department or extension.
  11. (Attendant) A physician (M.D. or D.O.) in a hospital, a physician not in a hospital, a certified nurse-midwife (CNM), or other attendant at birth or death. Legislation during 1983 (H.B. ...
  12. (Attendant) An operator of a PBX console or telephone switchboard.
  13. (Attendant) An uniformed orderly employed at a service station whose major function is to dispense gasoline into customers' vehicles. ...
  14. (Attendant) one who guards, looks after, or serves an important person; a servant
  15. (attendant) A brother, usually a {ministerial servant}, who helps with seating, greets strangers, maintains order, assists with crying babies and obstreperous children, {takes the count}, watches for problems in the parking lot, answers the phone, and occasionally acts as bouncer to unwelcome ...
  16. (attendant) The person who has access to accounting, diagnostics and other attendant functions by turning the attendant key switch on the machine.
  17. Payment of travel and subsistence expenses (motel and meal costs) for attendants may be reimbursed if advance approval is obtained from the Department head.
  18. Worker bees that are attending the queen. When used in the context of queens in cages, the workers that are added to the cage to care for the queen.
  19. Also known as members of the wedding party. They're friends and family members that you've asked to play a special role whether as best man, usher, or groomsman.
  20. Personal care attendants