attendant: Meaning and Definition of
at•tend•ant
Pronunciation: (u-ten'dunt), [key] — n.
- a person who attends another, as to perform a service.
- an usher or clerk.
- a corollary or concomitant thing or quality.
- a person who is present, as at a meeting.
—adj. - being present or in attendance; accompanying.
- consequent; concomitant; associated; related: winter holidays and attendant parties; war and its attendant evils; poverty and its attendant hardships.
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