to attend, to be present

attendance, presence

attend, be present

surrogation, proxy / (law) proxy

to act in place of

he / distal demonstrative, something far off removed from both speaker and listener: that / boyfriend

distal demonstrative, something far off removed from both speaker and listener: that, yon / particularly, male personal third person pronoun: he / by extension from he: boyfriend

he; boyfriend

to hold a meeting

meeting, conference