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1.
An ~ is a person who travels with someone in order to protect or guard them.
He arrived with a police ~ shortly before half past nine.
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If someone is taken somewhere under ~, they are accompanied by guards, either because they have been arrested or because they need to be protected.
...a group being taken under police ~ to the city outskirts.
PHRASE: PHR after v
2.
An ~ is a person who accompanies another person of the opposite sex to a social event. Sometimes people are paid to be ~s.
My sister needed an ~ for a company dinner.
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3.
If you ~ someone somewhere, you accompany them there, usually in order to make sure that they leave a place or get to their destination.
I ~ed him to the door...
VERB: V n prep/adv