attributively

• “attributively," many other nouns are: think of bull rider, king crab, sperm bank.”

  Word Court

• “An added complication is that in some cases (e.g. Earls in Earls Court) the - s noun may be a plural noun used attributively, i.e. acting as an adjective and therefore in no need of an apostrophe.”

  Apostrophes in business names and place names

• “Aren't these examples of nouns being used attributively?”

  On plural adjectives

• “Newspaper headlines in particular like to use adjectives attributively, as it saves space.”

  Archive 2010-05-01

• “I wonder if the expression "Alcoholics Anonymous" falls into the plural adjectives category, the nouns used attributively category, or both!”

  On plural adjectives

• “So one factor is whether the compound is being used attributively before a noun or not.”

  On hyphenating, or not

• “For example, when speakers use a definite description in an utterance, they normally use it referentially (about a particular, known, intersubjectively recognisable) individual rather than attributively”

  Defaults in Semantics and Pragmatics

• “The noun can be used attributively to do the work of an adjective: Robert Southey in 1812 denounced “the venom and the virulence of the demagogue journalists.””

  Simon & Schuster: The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time

• “In fact, woman appears in dictionaries either as an adjective in addition to a noun or with the notation that the noun is often used attributively.”

  Word Court

• “I also had a very good reason for not wanting to change, because we had the equivalent of the White House correspondents, they're called lobby correspondents, because they lobby ministers, 150 of them, they all go to the same briefings, given non-attributively by the prime minister's press secretary.”

  Whitehall

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