chaperone
sustantivoverboatestiguado en diálogos
- Reino Unido//ˈʃæ.pəˌɹəʊn//
- Estados Unidos//ˈʃæ.pəˌɹoʊn//
An older person who accompanies other younger people to ensure the propriety of their behaviour, often an older woman accompanying a young woman.
sustantivo
- 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
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.
- 3
An employee sent by a British company to the European Union to work with a client there, to circumvent restrictions imposed after Brexit.
Etimología
See chaperon.
verbo
- 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.
'Purcell had volunteered to chaperone a delegation of female students'
TfL has more than enough to be getting on with each day without having to chaperone TV crews.
- 2
To work as a chaperone.
Formas
- plural
- chaperones
- pasado
- chaperoned
- participio
- chaperoned
- gerundio
- chaperoning
- 3.ª persona del singular
- chaperones
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