Attend To

Definition: Attend To

Attend To

Verb

1. Get down to; pay attention to; take seriously; "Attend to your duties, please".

2. Work for or be a servant to; "May I serve you?"; "She attends the old lady in the wheelchair"; "Can you wait on our table, please?"; "Is a salesperson assisting you?"; "The minister served the King for many years".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonyms: Attend To

Business

Drive a trade; carry on a trade, do a trade, transact a trade, carry on business, do business, transact business; Noun: keep a shop; ply one's task, ply one's trade; labor in one's vocation; pursue the even tenor of one's way; attend to business, attend to one's work.

Neglect

Slur over, skip over, jump over, slip over; pretermit, miss, skip, jump, omit, give the go-by to, push aside, pigeonhole, shelve, sink; table; ignore, shut one's eyes to, refuse to hear, turn a deaf ear to; leave out of one's calculation; not attend to; not mind; not trouble oneself about, not trouble one's head about, not trouble oneself with; forget; be caught napping; (not expect); leave a loose thread; let the grass grow under one's feet.

Obedience

Verb: be -obedient; Adjective: obey, bear obedience to; submit; comply, answer the helm, come at one's call; do one's bidding, do what one is told, do suit and service; attend to orders, serve faithfully.

Crosswords: Attend To

Well, more in and out for most of ya! Or are you going to attend to the Divine Word and realise the punishments that await unrepentant sinners in the next world as well as this? (A Clockwork Orange; writing credit: Stanley Kubrick)

Will take care of this business I need to attend to, cuz my rent's due (Keep Their Headz Ringin; performing artist: Dr. Dre)

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them. (reference)

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But the unsolved problem did not worry me so much as at another time it might have done, there were so many other things to attend to.

It will be soon enough to forget them when we have the learning and the genius which will enable us to attend to and appreciate them.

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Business

Since the majority of these companies are involved in AFJPs, they also attend to a captive market, their members. (references)

Children

Moldova

Observers allege that women begging on the streets of Chisinau often sedate their babies in order to spend long hours begging without having to take time out to attend to their babies' needs. (references)

Civil Liberties

Mexico

On August 24, the CNDH opened its first border office in Tapachula, Chiapas, to receive and attend to complaints of human rights violations from migrants, both documented and undocumented. (references)

Human Rights

Guatemala

Security did not permit the entry of emergency medical personnel to attend to the injured. (references)

Women

Chile

At the end of 2000, there were 12 government and 8 private centers to attend to victims of intrafamily violence; the Government opened 5 additional centers during the year. (references)

Zambia

Although the police have a Victim Support Unit (VSU) to attend to the problems of domestic assault, wife beating, mistreatment of widows by the deceased husband's relatives, and "property grabbing," in practice police often are reluctant to pursue reports of domestic violence, preferring instead to encourage a reconciliation. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "attend to": attend to business ♦ attend to my words! ♦ attend to one's work ♦ attend to orders. Additional references.

Albanian

kushtoj vëmendje. (various references)

Chinese 

顧 (look after, take into consideration, to attend to), 照顧 (show some consideration, takecare of, to attend to, to look after), 不務正業 (ignore one's proper occupation, not attend to one's proper duties, not engage in honest work). (various references)

Czech

starat se o (care for, cherish, look after, maintain, mind, take care of), obsluhovat (manipulate, operate, tend). (various references)

Finnish

toimittaa (arrange, carry out, compile, deliver, discharge, do, edit, perform, see to, supply), pitää huolta jostakin (look after, look to, provide for, shiftshift for oneself, take charge of), huolehtia (arrange, be anxious, care, look after, see, see to, take care, worry). (various references)

German

bedienen (assist, attend, handle, manipulate, operate, serve, service, to attend, to attend to, to operate, to serve, wait, wait on, waiting, work). (various references)

Greek 

περιποιούμαι (attend on, cherish, court, entertain, groom, nurse, tend, treat). (various references)

Hungarian

figyelmet szentel vminek (to attend to sg, to give heed to sg, to pay heed to sg), ügyel vmire (to attend to sg, to hark to sg, to hearken unto sg, to look to, to see to sg, to take care of sg), elintéz vmit (to attend to sg, to get sg over, to give attention to sg, to make short work of sg, to see to sg), ellát vmit (to attend to sg), felügyel vkire (to attend to sy), figyel vkire (to attend to sy), őriz vkit (to attend to sy), figyelmet fordít vmire (to attend to sg), vevőt kiszolgál (to attend to a customer), foglalatoskodik vkivel (to attend to sy), foglalatoskodik vmivel (to attend to sg), foglalkozik vkivel (to attend to sy), hallgat vkit (to attend to sy), meghallgat vkit (to attend to sy, to give one's ear to sy), utánajár vminek (to attend to sg, to go out on business), figyel vmire (to attend to sg, to hark to sg, to hearken unto sg, to listen to sg, to mind, to take note of sg). (various references)

Italian

accudire (look after), occupare (absorb, be responsible for, deal in, employ, fill, hold, inhabit, keep, keep busy, live in, occupy, preoccupy, sit in, spend, take, take possession, take up, task, to employ). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

事務�'見る (to attend to business). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

じむ�'みる (to attend to business). (various references)

Pig Latin

attenday otay

Romanian

a-şi vedea de, se ocupa (busy oneself with, dabble, deal with, embrace, employ, employ oneself in, follow, go in for, practise, see about), fi atent la (give ear to, heed, mind, note, notice). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

pobrinuti se za (provide for). (various references)

Spanish

prestar atención a (heed), ocuparse de (look after, see after, see to, serve, take care of), ocupar (be busy, capture, deal with, employ, encroach on, engage, fill, have a job, hold, light out, line, live in, occupy, pay attention, see to, take, take over, take up), despachar (conclude, despatch, dismiss, dispatch, dispose of, expedite, finish, sack, see to, send, send off, serve, settle, ship, toss off, transmit, turn away). (various references)

Swedish

expediera (dispatch, execute, expedite, forward, mail, post, send off, serve, settle). (various references)

Welsh

ymorol (see to it, seek, take care). (various references)

abobi, cura, curabant, curabantur, curabat, curabimini, curabit, curabo, curabunt, curamini, curandi, curandum, curans, curantes, curare, curarem, curarentur, curaret, curaretur, curari, curas, curasset, curata, curatae, curate, curatus, curaverunt, curavimus, curavit, curem, cures, iacobi, obierit, obierunt, obiit, obisset, obitu, obitum, obitus, observare, procurator. (various references)

tenden. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: notated.

-2 letters: atoned, attend, attent, donate, notate, tatted, totted.

-3 letters: anode, anted, atone, datto, noted, oaten, tanto, toned, toted.

-4 letters: aeon, ante, date, dato, dean, dent, doat, dona, done, dote, etna, neat, nett, node, nota, note, odea, tate, teat, tend, tent, toad, toea, toed, tone, tote.

-5 letters: ado, and, ane, ant, ate, att, den, doe.

+3 letters: detestation, potentiated.

+4 letters: detestations.

+5 letters: counterstated, postdebutante.