0 present participle of attend
2 to give attention to what someone is saying:
I'm afraid I wasn't attending to what was being said.
3 to provide a service to someone, especially as part of your job:
The queen was attended by her ladies-in-waiting.
4 to happen as a result of, and at the same time as:
the publicity that attends a career in television
You are cordially invited to attend our annual wine-tasting evening.
Would everyone who wishes to attend the dinner let me know by Friday afternoon?
I don't think there's any need for all of us to attend the meeting.
One might assume that the attending physician was equipped to investigate these.
For attending hevening parties now we generally get one pound and our refreshments.
The sample was stratified by age and rural-urban environment, and informed consent obtained to take blood specimens from subjects attending phlebotomy centres.