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