attendant: Meaning and Definition of

at•tend•ant

Pronunciation: (u-ten'dunt), [key]
— n.
  1. a person who attends another, as to perform a service.
  2. an usher or clerk.
  3. a corollary or concomitant thing or quality.
  4. a person who is present, as at a meeting.
—adj.
  1. being present or in attendance; accompanying.
  2. consequent; concomitant; associated; related: winter holidays and attendant parties; war and its attendant evils; poverty and its attendant hardships.
Random House Unabridged Dictionary, Copyright © 1997, by Random House, Inc., on Infoplease.
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