attendee

English

Etymology

From attend +‎ -ee.

Noun

attendee (plural attendees)

  1. A person who is in attendance or in the audience of an event.
    • 2000, Russian Government, Federal Constitutional Law №3 dated December 25, 2000:
      During the official performance of the National Anthem of the Russian Federation all attendees are supposed to stand and men take their hats off.
    • 2002, Sam Williams, Free as in Freedom, chapter 11:
      O'Reilly, the summit host, remembers a particularly insightful comment from Torvalds, a summit attendee.
    • 2020 March 7, Greg Clary and Raymond Arke, “CPAC attendee tested positive for coronavirus”, in CNN‎[1]:
      President Donald Trump, Vice President Mike Pence and other administration officials attended the conference, though the ACU says the attendee did not come into contact with the president or vice president, nor did they attend events in the main hall.
    • 2021 March 24, Stefanie Foster, “Hidden London: Old Tube on YouTube”, in RAIL, number 927, page 42:
      There is also no barrier to those living outside of London, which the team quickly discovered when they started running virtual tours and found that 50% of the attendees were from overseas, joining the tour from as far away as Singapore, Toronto and Australia.
    • 2024 April 28, Gaby Del Valle, “The Far Right’s Campaign to Explode the Population”, in POLITICO‎[2]:
      Many of the speakers and attendees see natalism as a way of reversing these changes.
  2. (uncommon) A person who is attended.

Usage notes

Attender was originally the more common word for a person attending, but was overtaken by attendee in the 1970s.[1] In 1988, Merriam-Webster still only noted attender with this meaning.[2] With most nouns formed from verbs – such as payer, trainer, employer – it's the receiver of action that's formed with -ee: payee, trainee, employee. The Financial Times favours attender, while The Economist's style guide[3] cautions against attendee, but prefers those attending.

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  1. ^ attender, attendee at the Google Books Ngram Viewer.
  2. ^ Merriam Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, Tenth Edition; 1988, ISBN 0-87779. Under definition of attend, find 'attender', not 'attendee'.
  3. ^ Style Guide, 10 edition, The Economist in association with Profile Books Ltd, 2013, page 48

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