attention

/əˈten·ʃən/ n [U] (CARE)

Definition

› time or effort that you are willing to give to help someone or something because you care about that person or thing: It’s an old house, and it needs a lot of attention.

(Definition of attention n (CARE) from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

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attend v
attendance n
attendant n
attendee n
attention exclamation, n WAY OF STANDING
attention n CARE
attention n NOTICE
attention span n
attentive adj
attest v
attic n

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