escort
noun/ˈeskɔːt/
/ˈeskɔːrt/
- [countable, uncountable] a person or group of people or vehicles that travels with somebody/something in order to protect or guard them
- Armed escorts are provided for visiting heads of state.
- Prisoners are taken to court under police escort.
- The convoy had an escort of ten destroyers.
- Bomber planes were sent out with fighter escorts.
Extra ExamplesTopics Transport by car or lorryc2- Get your planes ready for escort duties.
- She had a police escort to the hospital.
- The army provided a small armed escort for the delegation.
- The opposition leader was arrested and taken to the capital under escort.
- The referee needed a police escort as he left the stadium.
- They left with a small escort.
- an escort for the King's car
- an escort of ten soldiers
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- armed
- military
- motorcycle
- …
- be accompanied by
- have
- give somebody
- …
- vehicle
- vessel
- duty
- …
- under escort
- with an escort
- without an escort
- …
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- [countable] (formal or old-fashioned) a person, especially a man, who takes somebody to a particular social event
- In my day, young women were not allowed out without a suitable escort.
- [countable] a person, especially a woman, who is paid to go out socially with somebody Escort is sometimes used as a polite word for somebody who works as a prostitute: an escort service/agency
Word Originlate 16th cent. (originally denoting a body of armed men escorting travellers): from French escorte (noun), escorter (verb), from Italian scorta, feminine past participle of scorgere ‘to conduct, guide’, based on Latin ex- ‘out of’ + corrigere ‘set right’ (from cor- ‘together’ + regere ‘guide’).
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