attending

From attend + -ing.

• IPA^(key): /əˈtɛndɪŋ/
• Rhymes: -ɛndɪŋ

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• Hyphenation: at‧tend‧ing

attending (not comparable)

1. That attend or attends; that is or are in attendance; attendant.
2. Serving on the staff of a teaching hospital as a doctor.
3. 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.

attending (plural attendings)

2. (Canada, US) A physician on the staff of a hospital, especially the principal one that supervises a patient's care.

   Hypernyms: physician, doctor < person

   Coordinate terms: resident (a mentee of the attending), resident doctor (UK)

   She's an attending in gastroenterology at Mass General.

   • 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^[1]:

     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.

attending

1. present participle and gerund of attend