escort vs marshal

escort

verb
  • To attend to in order to guard and protect; to accompany as a safeguard (for the person escorted or for others); to give honorable or ceremonious attendance to 

  • To go with someone as a partner, for example on a formal date. 

  • To accompany (a person) in order to compel them to go somewhere (e.g. to leave a building). 

noun
  • A sex worker who does not operate in a brothel, but with whom clients make appointments; a call girl or male equivalent. 

  • A guard who travels with a dangerous person, such as a criminal, for the protection of others. 

  • Protection, care, or safeguard on a journey or excursion. 

  • A group of people or vehicles, generally armed, who go with a person or people of importance to safeguard them on a journey or mission. 

  • An accompanying person in such a group. 

  • A group of people attending as a mark of respect or honor. 

  • An accompanying person in a social gathering, etc. 

marshal

verb
  • To ceremoniously guide, conduct or usher. 

  • To arrange (facts, etc.) in some methodical order. 

  • To gather data for transmission. 

  • To arrange (troops, etc.) in line for inspection or a parade. 

  • To serialize an object into a marshalled state represented by a sequence of bytes that can later be converted back into an object with equivalent properties. 

noun
  • A person in charge of the ceremonial arrangement and management of a gathering. 

  • A federal lawman. 

  • A high-ranking officer in the household of a medieval prince or lord, who was originally in charge of the cavalry and later the military forces in general. 

  • A military officer of the highest rank in several countries, including France and the former Soviet Union; equivalent to a general of the army in the United States. See also field marshal. 

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