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escort service

American  
[es-kawrt sur-vis] / ˈɛs kɔrt ˌsɜr vɪs /

noun

  • escort services
    plural
  1. a business organization that provides dates for paying clients, often as a legal front for sex work in locales where prostitution is illegal.


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Noun Inflected Forms


Etymology

Origin of escort service

First recorded in 1920–25 as escort agency


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The strategists said it’s unclear that the U.S. administration will want to maintain a permanent Middle East naval escort service that’s been helping more oil get out — “a critical unknown at this juncture.”

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 28, 2026

Additionally, CSU provides an app linking students to the university's police department and offers a free safety escort service for campus and nearby student housing.

From BBC ● Apr. 26, 2024

Roosevelt created the Atlantic squadron in January 1939 and gradually expanded a U.S. naval patrol and escort service for shipping headed for England.

From Textbooks ● Dec. 14, 2022

After the robbery, 99 Ranch Market released a statement saying it has “significantly increased its safety measures,” employing more security guards and providing customers with escort service to their cars upon request.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 15, 2022

The trawlers were engaged in patrol duty, convoy escort service, and minesweeping.

From The Crisis of the Naval War by John Rushworth Jellicoe, Earl Jellicoe

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