chaperone
sha puh rohn
- n one who accompanies and supervises a young woman or gatherings of young people
- v accompany as a chaperone
- It was even possible to date: in Baghdad, courting couples, often accompanied by a chaperone, would meet at fruit-juice kiosks or ice-cream parlors or in one of the restaurants .
- Bankers at Goldman Sachs can't talk to analysts on the phone without a corporate chaperone listening in, and e-mails between their departments automatically bounce back.
- All of which appeals to the grownups who chaperone the movie trips and endure the repeated DVD viewings.