attach

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attach is on the Academic Word List.

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Plain form
attach

Third-person singular
attaches

Past tense
attached

Past participle
attached

Present participle
attaching

  1. (transitive & intransitive) If you attach to , you put on so that they will not come apart.
    Warnings and instruction should be firmly attached to the container.
    Attach the wire to the speaker with the red clip.
    Look for spaces where the tire attaches to the rim.
  2. (transitive) If you are attached to an office, department, location, etc. you work for that part of the organisation.
  3. (transitive & intransitive) If a quality such as importance is attached to something, people think the thing has that quality.
    There was a great deal of importance attached to being well dressed.
  4. (transitive & intransitive) If something is attached to something else, there is a strong connection between them.
    The promise of more money for the school is attached to better results from the students?
    There is also something called ground rent, which is attached to these apartments.

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