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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
attendee
noun
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▪ All performances are free, with attendees encouraged to bring lawn chairs or blankets.
▪ Communication would be limited to the attendees and readers of the published proceedings, posters to attendees only.
▪ Far in back of the huge auditorium, a camera scans the frantic attendees.
▪ Few attendees doubted that some fringe groups would respond violently.
▪ In Pericles' day, the democratic Athenian Assembly actually voted to pay jury-duty fees to all attendees at those dramatic festivals.
▪ Of course, integrated programmes are less suitable for part-time attendees and those who want to do parts of a modular programme.
▪ We have had reports from a high percentage of attendees that their levels of self-esteem and confidence have increased considerably.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
attendee

"one who attends" (something), 1961, from attend + -ee. Attender is older (mid-15c.) but had senses "one who waits upon" and "one who gives heed."

Wiktionary
attendee

n. 1 A person who is in attendance or in the audience of an event. 2 A visitor or participant of an event. 3 (context uncommon English) A person who is attended.

WordNet
attendee

n. a person who participates in a meeting; "he was a regular attender at department meetings"; "the gathering satisfied both organizers and attendees" [syn: attendant, attender, meeter]

Usage examples of "attendee".

Koltnow, a teacher whom Franklin and Albrecht had met at a math conference and recruited to work at PCC, was one attendee who was a little put off by the Wednesday-evening scene.

Until, one hopes, this conference is safely ended and all the attendees packed off to their respective solar systems.

But thereby the several hundred attendees who were leaving the final, plenary session of the conference on this fourth day were greeted with a fine spectacle.

As the attendees spread out to line Church Street, several cameras appeared from bags and briefcases.

At the conclusion of services, which normally had 400 to 500 attendees, Rababah says he happened to meet Hazmi and Hanjour.

Instead of scofafing at this primitive ritual, the attendees listened raptly.

The ancient rituals touched the heart, and made the attendees laugh out loud.

Sterling had told Saint Just were workshops for the conference attendees had begun in earnest after luncheon, so that the hallways on the conference floor were alternately deserted or crowded with women going here, coming from there.

Steve to make the hotel hand over their room list, and see which WAR attendees sprang for the concierge floor.

Spivak, at a nod from Saint Just, signaled for her cam-eraman to switch on his lights, which attracted several more WAR attendees in the way a porch light attracts moths, although the crush was already considerable.

British fans put on displays of public affection that the staid, puritanical American attendees beheld in bemused astonishment.

As for the attendees, those brave 268 of the Worldcon Pleistocene who tiptoed past the cornflakes, they included a good many whose names are still familiar today.

Hale displayed his three military-issue IDs, two of them unique to this event and delivered to attendees just two days ago.

I have by now, of course, learned that none of the attendees at the conference was injured.

And to the good-sport charity auctioneers and attendees who make Seattle a great place to live and write.