escorting

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Verb[edit]

escorting

  1. present participle and gerund of escort

Noun[edit]

escorting (plural escortings)

  1. The act by which someone is escorted; provision of an escort.
    • 2013, Gillian Russell, Delia Graff Fara, Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Language, page 422:
      The first sentence means that all escortings by officers in Saint Petersburg were escortings of ballerinas. The second sentence means that all escortings of ballerinas in Saint Petersburg were escortings by officers.

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