attendant:

(plural: ‘attendants‘)

a train attendant on a train

a person, usually an employee, who stays with and serves or looks after another person;

a person who is employed to look after and help visitors at a public place, such as a hotel, theatre, at a gas (filling) station, at an airport, on a flight, train, ship, etc.,

flight attendants at work on a flight

e.g.

Parking attendants at a parking lot are very useful, and they make sure that the drivers park legally paying the right amount of parking charges.

A flight attendant’s job is not asĀ glamorousĀ as it looks.

With the advanced technology used at filling/gas stations, these days we see fewer and fewer attendants giving their personal touch to the tired drivers.

For an informative article on flight attendant’s career, please click here.

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