different between attendee vs organizer

English

Etymology

attend +? -ee

Noun

attendee (plural attendees)

1. A person who is in attendance or in the audience of an event.
   • 2000, Russian Government, Federal Constitutional Law ?3 dated December 25, 2000

     During the official performance of the National Anthem of the Russian Federation all attendees are supposed to stand and men take their hats off.
2. A visitor or participant of an event.
   • 2002, Sam Williams, Free as in Freedom, chapter 11

     O'Reilly, the summit host, remembers a particularly insightful comment from Torvalds, a summit attendee.

3. (uncommon) A person who is attended.

Synonyms

• (participant in an event): audience (member), participant
• (person in attendance): attender, audience (member)

Attender was originally the only word for a person attending. As with most nouns formed from verbs, as payer, trainer, employer, it was the receiver of action that was formed with -ee, as with payee, trainee, employee. In the 1980s with the advent of spell-checkers, the word attender was erroneously flagged as misspelled and attendee was its replacement. Since then attender is no longer in popular usage.

Related terms

• attendant

Translations

References

Anagrams

• edentate

English

Alternative forms

• organiser

Etymology

organize +? -er

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?????na?z?/

Noun

organizer (plural organizers)

1. A person who arranges the details of a public event.
2. (computing) A hand-held micro-computer that will perform specific tasks; can be used as an electronic diary, alarm clock, recorder of memos and notes, a portable database etc.
3. (medicine) A group of cells that, together with the evocator, control differentiation in the embryo; the inductor

Synonyms

• (person): chief, controller, comptroller, foreman, head, head man, overseer, superintendent, supervisor

Derived terms

• desk organizer

Translations

Latin

Verb

organizer

1. first-person singular present passive subjunctive of organiz?