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Vinony

chaperone

noun

  1. someone who accompanies an unmarried girl in public
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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /ˈʃæ.pəˌɹoʊn/ / /ˈʃæ.pəˌɹəʊn/

noun

Etymology: See chaperon.

  1. An older person who accompanies other younger people to ensure the propriety of their behaviour, often an older woman accompanying a young woman.
  2. 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.
  3. An employee sent by a British company to the European Union to work with a client there, to circumvent restrictions imposed after Brexit.

verb

Etymology: See chaperon.

  1. To act as a chaperone.

    “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.”

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

  2. To work as a chaperone.