attend to
phrasal verbattend to somebody/something
- to deal with somebody/something; to take care of somebody/something
- I have some urgent business to attend to.
- A nurse attended to his needs constantly.
- (British English, formal) Are you being attended to, Sir? (= for example, in a shop)
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