attachment
pronunciation
How to pronounce attachment in British English:
UK [əˈtætʃmənt]
How to pronounce attachment in American English:
US [əˈtætʃmənt]
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- Noun:
- a feeling of affection for a person or an institution
- a supplementary part or accessory
- a writ authorizing the seizure of property that may be needed for the payment of a judgment in a judicial proceeding
- a connection that fastens things together
- faithful support for a religion or cause or political party
- the act of attaching or affixing something
- the act of fastening things together
Word Origin
- attachment (n.)
- c. 1400, "arrest of a person on judicial warrant" (mid-13c. in Anglo-Latin), from French attachement, from attacher (see attach). Application to property (including, later, wages) dates from 1590s; meaning "sympathy, devotion" is recorded from 1704; that of "something that is attached to something else" dates from 1797 and has become perhaps the most common use since the rise of e-mail.
Example
- 1. We had attachment problems because of our attachment problems .
- 2. One answer is that people have a passionate attachment to some brands .
- 3. The size of the attachment points indicated how large the missing muscles were .
- 4. This makes it difficult to get rid of as there is some irrational attachment to it .
- 5. Your attachment to substandard lodgings and scant tuition in dover is clearly irrational .