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chaperon

NOUN
person who accompanies for supervision
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Should it materialize, the takeover would be the latest disturbance at the Torrance shopping center, which recently instituted a chaperon policy after several large youth melees.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 23, 2024

The three girls aged 13, 10, and 9 arrived early in the morning Thursday, were detained and barred entry into the country along with their cousin chaperon who immigration authorities deemed “inadmissible.”

From Slate ● Jul. 19, 2019

At the outset, the company plans on offering fully autonomous rides, with a Waymo employee in the car only as a chaperon.

From The Verge ● Aug. 21, 2018

People asked her then why she had never mentioned the chaperon.

From The New Yorker ● Mar. 30, 2015

They had said all along that when I was eighteen and going to college, I could go out with boys, and then only in the company of a chaperon.

From "Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High" by Melba Pattillo Beals


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