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attendance Meaning, Definition, Pronunciation, Grammar & Synonyms❤️

0 the fact of going somewhere such as a church, school, etc. regularly:
- Attendance at lectures is compulsory.
- Attendances at church are falling.
1 present with someone and helping or taking care of them :
- He never goes out without his security men in attendance.
2 the fact of being at an event or going to a place:
- Attendance at rehearsals is required.
- Annual attendance at the museum is nearly 100,000.
3 the number of people who are present at a place or an event:
- average/poor/record attendance Average attendance has dropped noticeably since the ticket price increase.
- a decline/drop/increase in attendances
4 the act of being present at something, especially work:
- attendance rate/figures The Royal Mail introduced a scheme in which employees with a 100% attendance rate would be entered into a prize draw.
- Attendance at this meeting is compulsory.
5 with someone and helping them or taking care of them:
- He never goes out without his personal assistant in attendance.
- Delegates in attendance at the conference included a number from blue-chip companies.

As the course becomes more difficult, there's usually a corresponding drop in attendance.
At last month's meeting, attendance was poor.
Attendance at the meeting was rather thin.
Ticket prices were lowered in an attempt to increase attendance at home games.
He failed the course because of his poor record of attendance.
The seat that a service user occupied for much of the day, for example, appeared to be determined both by gender and the accumulated duration of attendances.
The magnitude of the regional differences should be stressed: the palest areas in the map recorded fewer than half the attendances per capita of the darkest shaded areas.
Rounding of estimated attendances may have occurred, but again we are assured that 'there is little evidence' that estimation led to exaggeration of the number of attendants (p. 51).