vendredi 17 mai 2013

PV - Attend to sb/sth


Attend to sb/sth

*To deal with something or someone: We still have a number of other matters to attend to. # He likes work that requires him to attend to a lot of detail. # Please take a seat and I’ll ask someone to attend to you.

                = SEE ABOUT

*To deal with business or personal matters: I may be late –I have got one or two things to attend to.

*If you attend to something such as a problem, you deal with it:  I had two tiems of business to attend to before I could relax. # Everyone has his own affairs to attend to. # If we do not attend to the problem, it will certainly grow.

                = SEE TO

*If you attend to someone who needs something, you help them or look after them: I see now that I should have attended to her myself. Henry was attended to in a competent manner. # It can, to easily, be assumed that one is attending to them when one is merely fussing.

*To deal with somebody or something; to take care of something or someone: I have some urgent business to attend to. # A nurse attended to his needs constantly. Are you being attended to, Sir? (=expression for example in a shop).

*(attend to someone) To serve a customer in a shop, restaurant etc.: Are you being attended to?

*To deal with something or help someone: Doctors tried to attend to the worst injured soldiers first. # I always have so many things to attend to when I come into the office after a trip abroad.

attend verb



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