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Chaperone

//ˈʃæ.pəˌɹoʊn// noun, verb

Definitions

Noun
  1. 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. 2
    one who accompanies and supervises a young woman or gatherings of young people wordnet
  3. 3
    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.
  4. 4
    An employee sent by a British company to the European Union to work with a client there, to circumvent restrictions imposed after Brexit. UK
Verb
  1. 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."

  2. 2
    accompany as a chaperone wordnet
  3. 3
    To work as a chaperone. UK

Etymology

Etymology 1

See chaperon.

Etymology 2

See chaperon.

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