Chaperone

Quick meaning: Chaperone is a noun meaning To act as a chaperone.

Meaning

To act as a chaperone.

More Meanings

1. (UK, business) To work as a chaperone.
2. An older person who accompanies other younger people to ensure the propriety of their behaviour, often an older woman accompanying a young woman.
3. (UK, business) An employee sent by a British company to the European Union to work with a client there, to circumvent restrictions imposed after Brexit.
4. (biochemistry) A protein that assists the non-covalent folding/unfolding and the assembly/disassembly of other macromolecular structures, but does not occur in these structures when the latter are performing their normal biological functions.

Example Sentences

'Purcell had volunteered to chaperone a delegation of female students'

TfL has more than enough to be getting on with each day without having to chaperone TV crews.

They played you off very cunning, Eliza. If it had been only one of them, you could have nailed him. But you see, there was two; and one of them chaperoned the other, as you might say.

Word Forms

• chaperones
• chaperoning
• chaperoned

Synonyms for chaperone

Depending on context, synonyms include chaperon.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include chaperon, handler, flashing, hood, duenna, chaperonage.

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