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escorting

USis-KORT-ing/ɪsˈkɔɹtɪŋ/UKis-KAWT-ing/ɪsˈkɔːtɪŋ/

Noun pluralescortings

2 meanings of escorting

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  1. 1
    verb
    Present participle and gerund of escort.

    Ushers were escorting guests to their seats as the music began.

    Escorting the senator through the crowd took longer than planned.

    Note

    Progressive and gerund share this spelling, and the test is what surrounds it. Ushers were escorting guests is the progressive, built on be; escorting the senator took an hour is the gerund, naming the action yet still taking a direct object. Swap that object for of, as in the escorting of prisoners, and the word has become the noun for the act.

  2. 2
    nouncountable or uncountable
    The act of accompanying someone as an escort, or the provision of an escort for someone.

    The escorting of prisoners between the jail and the courthouse is handled by deputies.

    Stadium security logged three escortings of unruly fans out of the stands on Saturday.

    Note

    The noun can be counted and made plural: three escortings of unruly fans. Of marks the person escorted and by marks the escort, a split philosophers use in Gillian Russell and Delia Graff Fara's Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Language, where saying all escortings by officers were escortings of ballerinas is not the same claim as saying all escortings of ballerinas were by officers.

escorting is a form of escort

escort, verb: To accompany someone in order to protect them or others, or to attend someone ceremonially as a mark of honor. Full entry

Forms
escortescorts he/she/itescorting -ing formescorted past tense, past participle
Spelling
escort → escorting: add -ing

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