ESCORT

(SOCIAL COMPANION) [noun] [C] - a person who goes with another person, usually one of the opposite sex, to a social event:"But I can't go to the dance without an escort," she protested.An escort is also someone, often a young woman, who is paid to go out to social events with another person.She describes herself as an escort, but really she's a prostitute. He hired an escort girl to go to the dinner with him.An escort agency/service is a business which supplies people who work as escorts.(formal) To escort someone, esp. a person of the opposite sex, is to go with them to a social event.Do you know who will be escorting her to the ball?