1. The middle-aged sleeping-car attendant was dozing but dressed.

2. After high school, he worked in a cannery, a packing house, as a labourer building bridges in the mountains, and then for the Canadian Pacific Railway as a dining car attendant before accepting a job washing cars at a gas station with a small attached used-car lot.

3. Someone whose job is to look after or help customers in a public place a car park Attendant 2 someone who looks after a very important person, for example a king or queen Examples from the Corpus Attendant • The middle-aged sleeping-car Attendant was dozing but dressed