chaperone
nomverbeattesté dans les dialogues
- Royaume-Uni//ˈʃæ.pəˌɹəʊn//
- États-Unis//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.
nom
- 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.
Étymologie
See chaperon.
verbe
- 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.
Formes
- pluriel
- chaperones
- passé
- chaperoned
- participe passé
- chaperoned
- participe présent
- chaperoning
- 3ᵉ personne du singulier
- chaperones
chaperone · An older person who accompanies other younger people to ensure the propriety of their behaviour, often an older woman accompanying a young woman.
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