The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 8 letter word DELEGATE
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More clues leading to the result DELEGATE
- Authorise English member to cut meeting
- Envoy’s time to receive eastern member
- European member in time to assign
- Agent wants Alli to attract crowd at match
- Retired editor and member dined with representative
- Representative is key when holding Georgia
- Representative to get instruction to remove barrier
- Agent escorted the wrong way, coming to eastern entrance
- Agent given instruction to take away money from sporting event
- Committee member for England’s foremost cricket side in 1750 for instance
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The straight part
We know that "conference attendee" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case conference attendee = delegate.The cryptic/wordplay part
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What does DELEGATE mean?
DELEGATE noun- A person authorized to act as representative for another; a deputy
- A representative at a conference, etc.
- An appointed representative in some legislative bodies
- A type of variable storing a reference to a method with a particular signature, analogous to a function pointer
- To authorize someone to be a delegate
- To commit a task to someone, especially a subordinate
- (of a subdomain) to give away authority over a subdomain; to allow someone else to create sub-subdomains of a subdomain of one's own