Other forms: attendants
An attendant is a person employed to help visitors. In a car park, a museum, a swimming pool or a hospital.
The job varies but the shape of it does not: somebody stationed in a place to assist and keep an eye on things. A flight attendant, a car park attendant, a cloakroom attendant. There is also an adjective meaning accompanying, so the attendant risks of a plan are the ones that come with it, and that use is formal and common in reports.
1nounattendantA person employed to assist people in a particular place.
“The attendant showed them where to leave their coats.”
2adjectiveaccompanyingAccompanying something as a consequence.
“The scheme carries attendant risks.”
Too few real examples of this word to estimate which sense is commonest.
Old French
attendant
Middle English
attendant,attendaunt
English, today
attendant
From Middle English attendant,attendaunt, from Old French attendant. by surface analysis, attend + -ant.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA