Collocations for "attend"
Common phrases and expressions where native English speakers use the word "attend" in context.
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attend
ⓘMost examples are given in US English. We have labeled exceptions as UK.v
- attend to [business, the matter at hand]
- (have) [business] to attend to
- attending to [his patient, a customer, the victims]
- attend [in person, personally]
- attend a [concert, movie, class]
- [some, an audience of] 50,000 (people) attended the [concert]
- attend the [meeting, interview, conference]
- cannot attend the [meeting]
- attend the [wedding, funeral, opening] (of)
- attend [school, university, church]
- attend [regularly, often, frequently]
- attend and [participate, speak, present]
- [invited, unable, required, welcome, encouraged, expected] to attend
- failure to attend will [result in, incur, be]
- [did, could, will, can, may] not attend
- [children, employees, students] must attend
'attend' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):
Sunday
- able
- bake
- cancellation
- church
- clerk
- client
- committee
- compulsory
- conference
- convention
- criminal
- customer
- delicate
- either
- emergency
- encourage
- enroll
- essence
- expect
- expert
- fever
- fling
- frail
- funeral
- gathering
- hire
- ill
- invitation
- invite
- jam
- mass
- meeting
- messy
- motor
- number
- opening
- personally
- prayer
- preliminary
- pressing
- reception
- register
- regular
- resolution
- roster
- routine
- scholarship
- school
- shareholder