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Escort
/ɛˈskɔːt/
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.
📖 Definitions of "Escort"
- 1
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.
- 2
An accompanying person in such a group.
- 3
A guard who travels with a dangerous person, such as a criminal, for the protection of others.
- 4
A group of people attending as a mark of respect or honor.
- 1
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
- 2
To accompany (a person) in order to compel them to go somewhere (e.g. to leave a building).
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- 3
To go with someone as a partner, for example on a formal date.
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