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English
Etymology
From attend + -ing.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /əˈtɛndɪŋ/
- Rhymes: -ɛndɪŋ
- Hyphenation: at‧tend‧ing
Adjective
attending (not comparable)
- That attend or attends; that is or are in attendance; attendant.
- Serving on the staff of a teaching hospital as a doctor.
- Attendant, concomitant.
1986 February 1, Michael Bronski, “Mock Homage to Fassbinder's Life & Films”, in Gay Community News, volume 13, number 28, page 6:Because so much of the character's self-loathing is manifested around his sexuality — his need to degrade the women with whom he identifies, the almost compulsive need to seduce a straight male actor, his malignant neglect of his lover — the casting of a woman in the part doubles, or even quadruples the attending implications and ironies.
Derived terms
Translations
that attend(s), attendant
serving on the staff of a teaching hospital as a doctor
Noun
attending (plural attendings)
- (Canada, US) A physician on the staff of a hospital, especially the principal one that supervises a patient's care.
2002, Harry Lee Kraus, Could I Have This Dance?, page 45:All the new interns had heard of his operative speed, his finesse under the attending's glare, and his memorization of the current surgical literature.
2009 March 11, “Doctor-Patient-Computer Relationships”, in New York Times:All too often when taking a history, residents and attendings in a hurry will simply use the cut-and-paste function to save time and bypass asking potentially important questions that have been asked before.
Translations
physician on the staff of a hospital
Verb
attending
- present participle and gerund of attend