Babysitter vs. Chaperone — What's the Difference?

A person engaged to care for children when the parents are not home.

A person, especially an older or married woman, who accompanies a young unmarried woman in public.

A person engaged to care for one or more children in the temporary absence of parents or guardians.

A guide or companion whose purpose is to ensure propriety or restrict activity

A person who cares for or watches over someone or something that needs attention or guidance.

An older person who attends and supervises a social gathering for young people.

A person who cares for one or more babies or children for a short period of time in place of their legal guardians.

Any of a diverse group of proteins that assist macromolecules, such as proteins and nucleic acids, to assemble and fold into the proper three-dimensional structure as they are being synthesized. Also called molecular chaperone.

A person engaged to care for children when the parents are not home

To act as chaperone to or for.

An older person who accompanies other younger people to ensure the propriety of their behaviour, often an older woman accompanying a young woman.

(biochemistry) A protein that assists the non-covalent folding/unfolding and the assembly/disassembly of other macromolecular structures, but does not occur in these structures when the latter are performing their normal biological functions.

An employee sent by a British company to the European Union to work with a client there, to circumvent restrictions imposed after Brexit.

To act as a chaperone.

To work as a chaperone.

One who accompanies and supervises a young woman or gatherings of young people

Accompany as a chaperone