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• Attendant — At*tend ant, a. [F. attendant, p. pr. of attendre. See {Attend}, v. t.] 1. Being present, or in the train; accompanying; in waiting. [1913 Webster] From the attendant flotilla rang notes triumph. Sir W. Scott. [1913 Webster] Cherub and Seraph …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• Attendant keys — Attendant At*tend ant, a. [F. attendant, p. pr. of attendre. See {Attend}, v. t.] 1. Being present, or in the train; accompanying; in waiting. [1913 Webster] From the attendant flotilla rang notes triumph. Sir W. Scott. [1913 Webster] Cherub and… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• attendant — [[t]əte̱ndənt[/t]] attendants 1) N COUNT: usu n N An attendant is someone whose job is to serve or help people in a place such as a petrol station, a car park, or a cloakroom. Tony Williams was working as a car park attendant in Los Angeles. Syn …   English dictionary

• attendant — {{11}}attendant (adj.) late 14c., solicitous, attentive, see ATTENDANT (Cf. attendant) (n.). Sense of serving under, accompanying in a dependant position is from c.1400. {{12}}attendant (n.) 1550s, one who waits upon, from the adjective, or from… …   Etymology dictionary

• attendant — I. noun Date: 15th century 1. one who attends another to perform a service; especially an employee who waits on customers 2. something that accompanies ; concomitant 3. attendee II. adjective Date: 15th century …   New Collegiate Dictionary

• attendant — One who owes a duty or service to another, or in some sort depends upon him. One who follows and waits upon another attendant, adj Accompanying, or connected with …   Black's law dictionary

• attendant — One who owes a duty or service to another, or in some sort depends upon him. One who follows and waits upon another attendant, adj Accompanying, or connected with …   Black's law dictionary

• attendant —    An attendant in former times would have been a man or woman who attended upon a nobleman. Shakespeare uses the word many times with this meaning, though never in direct address. Today the word is most often used vocatively to the attendant in… …   A dictionary of epithets and terms of address

• attendant terms — In English law, terms (usually mortgages), for a long period of years, which are created or kept outstanding for the purpose of attending or waiting upon and protecting the inheritance. A phrase used in conveyancing to denote estates which are… …   Black's law dictionary

• attendant terms — In English law, terms (usually mortgages), for a long period of years, which are created or kept outstanding for the purpose of attending or waiting upon and protecting the inheritance. A phrase used in conveyancing to denote estates which are… …   Black's law dictionary

• attendant — A person owing a duty of service to another or in some manner dependent upon him. A person in attendance. See attendance …   Ballentine's law dictionary