attendantとは

語源

From Middle French [Term?].

発音

• IPA^(key): /əˈtɛndənt/

名詞

attendant (複数形 attendants)

1. One who attends; one who works with or watches over something.

   Give your keys to the parking attendants and they will park your car for you.

2. A servant or valet.
3. (chiefly archaic) A visitor or caller.
4. That which accompanies or follows.
5. (law) One who owes a duty or service to another.

形容詞

attendant (comparative more attendant, superlative most attendant)

1. Going with; associated; concomitant.

   They promoted him to supervisor, with all the attendant responsibilities and privileges.

   • Sir Walter Scott

     The natural melancholy attendant upon his situation added to the gloom of the owner of the mansion.

   • 2012 November 13, European Court of Human Rights, Hristozov and others v. Bulgaria‎^[1], number 47039/11 358/12, marginal 120:

     The applicants […] seek to argue that because of the dire prognosis attaching to their medical condition, they should have been allowed to assume the risks attendant on a potentially life‑saving experimental product.

2. (law) Depending on, or owing duty or service to.

   the widow attendant to the heir

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参考

• part and parcel

Latin

発音

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /atˈten.dant/

動詞

attendant

1. third-person plural present active subjunctive of attendō