escort
IPA: ɛskˈɔrt
noun
- A group of people or vehicles, generally armed, who go with a person or people of importance to safeguard them on a journey or mission.
- An accompanying person in such a group.
- A guard who travels with a dangerous person, such as a criminal, for the protection of others.
- A group of people attending as a mark of respect or honor.
- An accompanying person in a social gathering, etc.
- Protection, care, or safeguard on a journey or excursion.
- (somewhat euphemistic) A sex worker who does not operate in a brothel, but with whom clients make appointments; a call girl or male equivalent; a pimp.
verb
- To attend to in order to guard and protect; to accompany as a safeguard (for the person escorted or for others); to give honorable or ceremonious attendance to
- To accompany (a person) in order to compel them to go somewhere (e.g. to leave a building).
- To go with someone as a partner, for example on a formal date.
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Examples of "escort" in Sentences
- The problem was with the shortage of escorts.
- On the way the escort beat and tortured the Jews.
- In time, the guard and the escort became intimate.
- Praise for the escort carrier group was unbounded.
- Corvettes provided the majority of the escort force.
- He was the leader of the escort of the captured Thomas O. Larkin.
- The provost was to escort the Jews to the frontier of the kingdom.
- The same model is used as escort cars for the presidential motorcade.
- The ushers escort the Queen and members of the Royal House to the door.
- Increasing availability of escort carriers reduced the hazard of the Gap.
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