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.
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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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