escorting

Verb

escort (third-person singular simple present escorts, present participle escorting, simple past and past participle escorted)

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.
   • He reported that the police escorted the children five or six blocks beyond Natural Bridge Avenue and at that point stopped the white children who were following and shooed them back to the park.2009, Allen D. Grimshaw, A Social History of Racial Violence
2. To accompany (a person) in order to compel them to go somewhere (e.g. to leave a building).
   • At this point, the Tenant became extremely angry.... the Tenant started yelling even louder and charged at me. The Tenant was restrained by the security guard and escorted out of the hearing room. The Tenant was ultimately escorted out of the Board’s office because he continued his yelling and...2018, TST-00493-18 (Re), Ontario Landlord and Tenant Board (Anna Solomon, member)
3. To go with someone as a partner, for example on a formal date.

   Synonyms:

   squire

4. (intransitive) To work as an escort (sex worker).
   • It's ironic to note that her own makeup looked like that of a prospective showgirl who was escorting until her big break came.2013, Alissa Nutting, Tampa

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