MEANING
1. Accompanying or connected with another event; also an associated circumstance or consequence.
2. A person employed to help others or look after a service, facility, or place.
3. A person who is present at and takes part in a meeting or event.
Use it for
describing complications accompanying a reform; noting costs that come with a policy; connecting a development with associated risksDistinguishes accompanying circumstances from a claim that one event necessarily caused another. Academic functions: Causation / Relationships, Significance / Scope.
Words that belong together
- attendant risks
- attendant difficulties
- attendant on economic change
On the page
The reform expanded access but introduced attendant difficulties in coordinating services.
The critic examines the growth of public readership and its attendant changes in literary style.
Interviews with museum attendants revealed how visitors interpreted the exhibition’s labels.
The labor study compared the schedules of flight attendants with those of ground staff.
The archival register lists attendants at the assembly but does not identify their political affiliations.
Nearby words
Word forms
- Base
- attendant
Usage notes
Adjective: attendant risks; attendant on a change. Count noun: attendant, attendants, for a helper or, less commonly, an attendee. An accompanying circumstance can also be called an attendant. No ordinary adjective comparison. Register: formal. Commonness: moderately common (qualitative editorial estimate, informed by dictionaries/corpus).
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