escorting
Guiding someone safely
Escorting is the act of accompanying someone, typically for protection, guidance, or courtesy: Security was escorting him from the building.
The term also refers to working as a paid companion, often a euphemism for prostitution: She made money escorting on weekends.
Paid personal security agent
- security detailProtective personnel assignment
- convoyGuarded traveling group
- guardianProtective caretaker of another
- protectionGuarding against harm
safeguarding · close protection · motorcade · surveillance · bouncer · sentinel · watchman · patrol
bodyguard
Paid personal security agent
- security detailProtective personnel assignment
- convoyGuarded traveling group
- guardianProtective caretaker of another
protection · safeguarding · close protection · motorcade · surveillance · bouncer · sentinel · watchman · patrol · defender
companion
One who keeps company
- chaperoneProtective adult companion
- attendantOne who assists others
- entourageAttendants accompanying someone important
usher · consort · partner · chaperon · cortege · retinue · attendee · accompaniment · companionship · attendance
usher
One who seats guests
navigator · pilot · marshal · docent · cicerone · sherpa · pathfinder · wayfinder · scout · tour guide
- kind actshelping, aiding, assisting, donating, sharing
- guidingadvising, directing, guiding, instructing, leading
- service tasksserving, greeting, seating, booking, checking in
- seamanshipseamanship, steering, anchoring, navigation, chartwork
- Security Taskslocking doors, setting alarms, patrolling, surveillance, monitoring
- sex tradeprostitution, sex work, sex worker, brothel, pimp
escortingabandoning
Leaving permanently behind
deserting · leaving behind · stranding · forsaking · leaving
escortingneglecting
Failing to attend to
abandoning · ignoring · disregarding · exposing · endangering
escortingmisdirecting
Guiding toward wrong target
misleading · sending away · turning loose · releasing · letting go