Meaning of attendance in English

attendance

noun

/əˈten.dəns/ us

/əˈten.dəns/

attendance noun (BEING PRESENT)

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C1 [ U or C ]

the fact of going somewhere such as a church, school, etc. regularly:

Attendance at lectures is compulsory.

C1 [ C or U ]

the number of people who go to an event, meeting, etc.:

Attendances at church are falling.

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As the course becomes more difficult, there's usually a corresponding drop in attendance.
At last month's meeting, attendance was poor.
Attendance at the meeting was rather thin.
Ticket prices were lowered in an attempt to increase attendance at home games.
He failed the course because of his poor record of attendance.

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attendance noun (PROVIDING HELP)

in attendance

present with someone and helping or taking care of them :

He never goes out without his security men in attendance.

(Definition of attendance from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

attendance | American Dictionary

attendance

noun [ U ]

/əˈten·dəns/

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the fact of being at an event or going to a place:

Attendance at rehearsals is required.

Attendance is also the number of people present:

Annual attendance at the museum is nearly 100,000.

(Definition of attendance from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

attendance | Business English

attendance

noun [ C or U ]

/əˈtendəns/ us

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the number of people who are present at a place or an event:

average/poor/record attendance Average attendance has dropped noticeably since the ticket price increase.

a decline/drop/increase in attendances

the act of being present at something, especially work:

attendance rate/figures The Royal Mail introduced a scheme in which employees with a 100% attendance rate would be entered into a prize draw.

Attendance at this meeting is compulsory.

in attendance

with someone and helping them or taking care of them:

He never goes out without his personal assistant in attendance.

present at a place or event:

Delegates in attendance at the conference included a number from blue-chip companies.

Examples of attendance

attendance

The seat that a service user occupied for much of the day, for example, appeared to be determined both by gender and the accumulated duration of attendances.

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The magnitude of the regional differences should be stressed: the palest areas in the map recorded fewer than half the attendances per capita of the darkest shaded areas.

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Rounding of estimated attendances may have occurred, but again we are assured that 'there is little evidence' that estimation led to exaggeration of the number of attendants (p. 51).

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Global malnutrition attendances, hospital admissions, and child mortality.

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Figure 9 shows the scatterplot and locally weighted best-fit lines of the index of sittings (seats per hundred capita) against the index of attendances (attendances per hundred capita).

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Furthermore, there were many agricultural areas that exhibited low indexes of attendances and sittings, and these were particularly prevalent in the border zones where cultural pluralism was most in evidence.

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Based on previous attendances, we would expect a total of around 20,000 visitors.

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