Escort

/ˈɛs.kɔɹt/ · noun

Meaning

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 by Sense

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.
5. An accompanying person in a social gathering, etc.
6. Protection, care, or safeguard on a journey or excursion.
7. (originally 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.
8. 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.

Example Sentences

The soldier who was pulling at the other end was clumsily unhorsed, and I myself was all but thrown by the unexpected jerk. This ludicrous incident at first provoked mirth among my escort, a mirth which their superstitious minds immediately turned into an ill omen.

Whole squadrons of cavalry escort had sometimes to be sent thundering against a powerful infantry outpost in order that the brief time between the charge and the inevitable retreat might be utilized in sounding a ford or determining the point of intersection of two roads.

There were not many passengers, and the journey was uneventful until the frontier was reached at Padang Besar, although an armed escort of Malay police accompanied the train from Alor Star.

The waves being so high when we and the escorts, which stayed about one quarter mile to each side and ahead of us, were in a trough at the same time and we were unable to see one another.

"He'd come in for something to eat—the red-bearded one. We had quite a chat. I told him we were traveling like Stevenson—with a donkey; but that one of the ladies had an abscess on a tooth and was going home. He said it was no place for women and offered himself as an escort."

"I went home with Hester Paine, last evening, from writing school. Just as she had accepted my escort, Halbert came up, and in a condescending way, informed her that he would see her home."

Of the 68 women, 26 reported that they had worked on the streets and as an escort over the course of their career as a prostitute, 18 exclusively as a street prostitute, and 8 as an escort only (i.e., working for an escort service).

Every escort has at least one or two regular clients; they are our bread and butter.

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• escorts
• escorting
• escorted

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