- used for asking people to listen to something that is being announced
- Attention, please! Passengers for flight KL412 are requested to go to gate 21 immediately.
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- used for ordering soldiers to stand to attention
Word Originlate Middle English: from Latin attentio(n-), from the verb attendere, from ad- ‘to’ + tendere ‘stretch’.
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