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escort
1 a (1) : a person or group of persons accompanying another to give protection or as a courtesy (2) : the man who goes on a date with a woman b : a protective screen of warships or fighter planes or a single ship or plane used to fend off enemy attack from one or more vulnerable craft
2 : accompaniment by a person or an armed protector (as a ship)
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escort
1 escort escorts
If someone is taken somewhere under escort, they are accompanied by guards, either because they have been arrested or because they need to be protected.
He arrived with a police escort shortly before half past nine.
A man was injured when gunmen attacked a group of Hindus being taken under police escort to the city outskirts.
PHR: PHR after v

2 escort escorts
An escort is a person who accompanies another person of the opposite sex to a social event. Sometimes people are paid to be escorts.
My sister needed an escort for a company dinner.
N-COUNT

3 escort escorts escorting escorted
If you escort someone somewhere, you accompany them there, usually in order to make sure that they leave a place or get to their destination.
I escorted him to the door.
The vessel was escorted to an undisclosed port.
VB

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