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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
attendance
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
average
▪ The average attendance at the Grammar School in the six years to 1881 was 138, but in 1882-86,78.
▪ But so far, the average paid attendance has been only 66 percent, a projected $ 800, 000 shortfall.
▪ The average attendance in the 121 years of its existence has been 60-80 pupils.
▪ The average attendance was about a hundred and had particular appeal to young women factory workers and those in domestic service.
compulsory
▪ In this respect, the law on compulsory school attendance clearly has its limitations.
constant
▪ Private, constant attendance, no expense spared.
good
▪ It is hoped that there will be a good attendance this year.
▪ By 1984, they scored third and fourth highest in the system and had the best attendance records.
▪ Exhibition board lighting and clear signposting ensured a good attendance.
▪ When you have a good attendance record and arrive on time each day you make things easier for your supervisor and fellow-workers.
▪ One of the most important was getting across to pupils and staff that good attendance was a high priority.
▪ In particular, it requires a good attendance record at school.
▪ For instance, all schools are concerned with improving and maintaining good attendance.
▪ In July the government majority fell to three on one vote but this narrow margin produced better attendances on the government side.
high
▪ He produced the second highest attendance in 150 years.
▪ After reviewing all the evidence and arguments, the Court exempted the Amish children from high school attendance.
▪ There was a high attendance by women, who formed a major part of the thinking.
large
▪ They are harder still to interpret: what does a large attendance at Easter communion imply?
▪ Make it an even larger attendance next time - bring your families and friends.
▪ Elsie Streek's holiday classes in Sidcup saw the largest attendance ever, and were successful and rewarding.
low
▪ Having been cleared of theft, she is now being blamed for the museum's low attendances.
perfect
▪ He was not a consistent honor-roll student, although he was cited at graduation for three years of perfect attendance.
▪ Also, more than half of the associates can boast of perfect attendance records.
▪ Only a significantly wrong due date separates Lou Madden from a perfect Super Bowl attendance record.
poor
▪ During follow up of the 228 children six were excluded because they moved out of the area or because of poor attendance.
▪ I must keep an eye out for signs of neglect, abuse, drug use and poor attendance.
▪ In yet another classification, Reid distinguishes between truancy and less serious forms of poor attendance at school.
▪ A poor attendance record leads to a credibility gap with superiors. 2.
▪ It is understood that the poor attendance and violent behaviour among students were still prevalent.
▪ He was fired from Wal-Mart last Wednesday for poor attendance, supervisors there said.
▪ As a result, the landlord blames the band for the poor attendance and refuses to pay.
regular
▪ The group has a regular daily attendance of 22 youngsters, and currently meets at St Joseph's Retreat.
▪ The same youngster will have spent only thirteen thousand hours in school, assuming that he or she is regular in attendance.
Regulars as regular in their attendance as any man.
▪ Can you keep up regular attendance at college if you pick the part-time degree?
▪ There are no auditions, but once pupils have committed themselves to membership regular attendance is expected.
▪ He suggested regular attendance be required of any man expecting to play for the province.
▪ But at Rediscovering Pompeii there are enough screens to satisfy demand, and a technician is in regular attendance.
▪ Training is paid at Army rates with a bounty for regular attendance.
total
▪ During the period under review 5 meetings were held in Glasgow, attracting a total attendance of 332.
▪ The 76, 244 total attendance was a Street Scene record, up from approximately 65, 000 in 1995.
▪ However we have been delighted by the response so far. Total attendance at the various events was 21,600!
▪ In the end, total attendance reached almost ten million.
■ NOUN
allowance
▪ If they are very ill they can claim other benefits, such as attendance allowance.
▪ We still have to wait months for payment of vitally important benefits such as the attendance allowance.
▪ These totals exclude mortgage interest and disregarded income, for example, attendance allowance.
▪ A councillor may give written notice to his council that he wishes to receive a financial loss allowance instead of an attendance allowance.
▪ He may revert to an attendance allowance by further written notice.
▪ In 1970 an attendance allowance was introduced, payable to a person in need of substantial care and attention.
▪ I had been through the same sort of trouble on behalf of my husband, applying for full attendance allowance on March 3.
▪ In this context neither the attendance allowances nor the SRAs are sufficiently realistic.
church
▪ It was not as though she had been slack in her church attendance in the past.
▪ Survey data indicate no variance in church attendance between blue- and white-collar workers.
▪ Coincidentally there has been a massive fall in church attendances.
▪ They were less likely to blame declining church attendance or on-screen violence.
▪ Major relaxations consisted of bands, societies, galas and of course, regular church attendance.
▪ Even less, 22 percent, thought declining church attendance a factor.
figures
▪ But computerised turnstile operations have made it almost impossible to fiddle the attendance figures in modern times.
▪ After numerous false starts, attendance figures hint that long-suffering soccer fans might finally have something to be excited about.
▪ Last year sales showed some recovery after a difficult 1991 fair, while attendance figures were 11,000.
▪ If anything, the Windsor Park attendance figures have increased over the past year.
▪ The day was a huge success, despite a small drop in attendance figures.
▪ This decision was based on a survey of 1991 visitors and exhibitors which also revealed attendance figures of 17,000.
▪ Total attendance figures were 28,000 compared to 40,000 at last year's event.
▪ By comparison with the attendance figures, the number of readers' tickets issued has increased generally.
rate
▪ If the school's overall attendance rate is poor, then the school may well suspect a high level of condoned truancy.
▪ An attendance rate of 90% for a week means that out of the 1000 possible attendances over the week, 900 were recorded.
▪ A push to improve the overall attendance rate involved several different strategies.
▪ Schools' concerns in examining their attendance rates tend to be with levels of non-attendance and in particular with truancy.
record
▪ In particular, it requires a good attendance record at school.
▪ A poor attendance record leads to a credibility gap with superiors. 2.
▪ At school I had a below 50 % attendance record, at College I have a 100 % attendance record.
▪ My grades were mediocre, my attendance record average.
▪ At school I had a below 50 % attendance record, at College I have a 100 % attendance record.
▪ Only a significantly wrong due date separates Lou Madden from a perfect Super Bowl attendance record.
▪ By 1984, they scored third and fourth highest in the system and had the best attendance records.
▪ All attendance records for the zoo were broken.
school
▪ In this respect, the law on compulsory school attendance clearly has its limitations.
▪ The Gobitis children were of an age for which Pennsylvania makes school attendance compulsory.
▪ Table 3.1 gives a picture of the situation today in relation to social class and school attendance.
▪ Note that, in both cases, I am speaking of performance, not of years of school attendance.
▪ It's exactly what you said, it's the question of school attendance.
▪ But as public school attendance became mandatory, and as graduation thus became commonplace, the number of college students increased astronomically.
▪ The number of children in the crowd suggested school attendances may well have been down yesterday.
▪ A child who lives in a state that requires school attendance must attend some acceptable school during the years of compulsory education.
■ VERB
dance
▪ Doctor Agrippa, who surprisingly had kept well out of our way, now came to dance attendance on us.
▪ She found the crew very friendly, and the skipper went out of his way to dance attendance on her.
▪ You can't expect us to dance attendance up the stairs as well.
expect
▪ By defining work patterns for each employee, the system knows when to expect attendance.
▪ You can't expect us to dance attendance up the stairs as well.
require
▪ In particular, it requires a good attendance record at school.
▪ A child who lives in a state that requires school attendance must attend some acceptable school during the years of compulsory education.
▪ This can require attendance at postgraduate courses, and perhaps some Masters degree coursework in the same field.
▪ Wisconsin required school attendance until the age of 16.
▪ Local education authorities also run courses which typically require attendance for two hours a week for six weeks, in the evenings.
▪ For those who require attendance both by day and night there is a higher rate allowance.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
dance attendance on sb
▪ Doctor Agrippa, who surprisingly had kept well out of our way, now came to dance attendance on us.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
Attendance at the national championships is already higher than expected.
▪ an average attendance of 4000 fans per game
▪ Considering the seriousness of the matter to be debated there was an unusually low attendance at the meeting.
▪ The game had an attendance of over 50,000 people.
▪ We had pretty good attendance despite the bad weather.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A subsidiary problem here is how or whether to institutionalize this, for example in the form of attendance or credit requirements.
▪ But my first attendance at a political rally changed my childhood habits right away, at least briefly.
▪ Concerns were expressed about S's time-keeping, non-school attendance and friendships.
▪ He produced the second highest attendance in 150 years.
▪ I was getting great attendance and they loved it.
▪ In 1992, attendance doubled again to 3,000, and has since averaged about 4,500.
▪ There began to be a great fall-off in attendance.
▪ They were certainly needed, for by then the attendance had leapt to fifty-six.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Attendance

Attendance \At*tend"ance\, n. [OE. attendance, OF. atendance, fr. atendre, F. attendre. See Attend, v. t.]

  1. Attention; regard; careful application. [Obs.]

    Till I come, give attendance to reading.
    --1 Tim. iv. 13.

  2. The act of attending; state of being in waiting; service; ministry; the fact of being present; presence.

    Constant attendance at church three times a day.
    --Fielding.

  3. Waiting for; expectation. [Obs.]

    Languishing attendance and expectation of death.
    --Hooker.

  4. The persons attending; a retinue; attendants.

    If your stray attendance by yet lodged.
    --Milton.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
attendance

late 14c., "act of attending to one's duties," from Old French atendance "attention, wait, hope, expectation," from atendant, present participle of atendre (see attend). Meaning "action of waiting on someone" dates from late 14c. (to dance attendance on someone is from 1560s); that of "action of being present, presenting oneself" (originally with intent of taking a part) is from mid-15c. Meaning "number of persons present" is from 1835.

Wiktionary
attendance

n. 1 (senseid en the state of attending) The state of attending; presence. 2 The count or list of individuals present for an event. 3 The frequency with which one has been present for a regular activity or set of events.

WordNet
attendance

n. the act of being present (at a meeting or event etc.) [syn: attending] [ant: nonattendance]

Wikipedia
Attendance

Attendance is the concept of people, individually or as a group, appearing at a location for a previously scheduled event. Measuring attendance is a significant concern for many organizations, which can use such information to gauge the effectiveness of their efforts and to plan for future efforts.

Usage examples of "attendance".

I removed all the ants from a group of about a dozen aphides on a dock-plant, and prevented their attendance during several hours.

She stopped abruptly, a habit arising from a natural fear which possessed her when in attendance on the Archdeacon and his clerical visitors that she might be talking too much.

Captain Argot asking his soldiers why the orken were not in attendance.

He briefly outlined the highlights of the arraignment, concluding with his surprise that Glitsky had not been in attendance.

I saw Asteria, standing in attendance behind Clearchus, shrink back behind the slave girl next to her, seeking to avoid his piercing gaze.

Her oddity, her awkwardness, and her self-conceit gave me the desire to know her better, and I began to dance attendance upon her.

Next Tuesday at day-break I began to dance attendance at the corner of the Rue des Prouveres, and waited there till the servant came out to take down the shutters.

I was vexed to see how these gentlemen were admitted while I danced attendance, and the project of sailing with Orloff began to displease me.

In Europe, that overage was reduced to ten, which probably accounted for the poor attendance on the part of the interior design population at the larger European shows like Grosvenor House and the Biennale in Paris.

It soon transpired that medical advice was to be had, gratis, at the Bijou, from eight till ten: and there was generally a good attendance.

Boots, who might have taken up two chairs, was not in attendance, but Blok sat with a group of his dinner guests.

Ruark was to be the only bondsman in attendance, a few of the senior overseers had been invited.

Kheda realised that Caid had only his personal slave and a few servants in attendance.

The ministers in attendance on him were the san-pan scows that did the ferrying of cargoes to and from the master chuan vessel, and ran the lesser errands in shallower waters.

Also in attendance was the local Roman Catholic primate, a foreigner named Father Simony, and a wizened, breech-clouted little witch doctor of the King Buzzard cult, Don Curandero Brujo.