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attendant
has definitions from the field of work
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[ noun ] (work) someone who waits on or tends to or attends to the needs of another
Used in print (James Thurber, "The Future, If Any, of Comedy,"...)In the railway_station at Berlin , a uniformed attendant was chanting , ' Foreigners this way ! Related terms assistant courtier squire orderly bellboy checker batman companion page second equerry cupbearer escort esquire arouser groomsman linkboy orderly bridesmaid famulus page loader servitor racker squire steward stretcher-bearer trainbearer gillie caddie baggageman matron_of_honor rocker lifeguard tend serve |
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[ adjective ] following as a consequence
Synonyms Examples "an excessive growth of bureaucracy, with related problems" "snags incidental to the changeover in management" Used in print (Brainard Cheney, "Christianity and the Tragic Vision-Ut...)During the next five years liberal leaders in the United_States sank in the cumulative confusion attendant upon and manifested in a negative policy of Containment - and the bitterest irony - enforced and enforceable only by threat of a weapon that we felt the greatest distaste for but could not abandon : Related terms |
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[ noun ] a person who participates in a meeting
Examples "he was a regular attender at department meetings" "the gathering satisfied both organizers and attendees" Related terms |
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