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plural chaperones
An older person who accompanies other younger people to ensure the propriety of their behaviour, often an older woman accompanying a young woman. examples
(biochemistry) 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. examples
(UK, business) An employee sent by a British company to the European Union to work with a client there, to circumvent restrictions imposed after Brexit. examples
third-person singular simple present chaperones, present participle chaperoning, simple past and past participle chaperoned
To act as a chaperone. quotations examples
DOOLITTLE […] 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.
1912, George Bernard Shaw, “Act V”, in Pygmalion
'Purcell had volunteered to chaperone a delegation of female students'
2006 April 17, The New Yorker, page 27
TfL has more than enough to be getting on with each day without having to chaperone TV crews.
2021 June 30, Tim Dunn, “How we made... Secrets of the London Underground”, in RAIL, number 934, pages 48–49
(UK, business) To work as a chaperone. examples