Chaperone vs Supervisor - What's the difference?
chaperone | supervisor |
An older person who accompanies other younger people to ensure the propriety of their behaviour, often an older woman accompanying a young woman.
(biology) 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.
to act as a chaperone
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(management) A person with the official task of overseeing the work of a person or group.
A person who monitors someone to make sure they comply with rules or other requirements set for them.
(US) In certain states, an elected member of the governing body for a county which is called the board of supervisors.
As nouns the difference between chaperone and supervisor
is that chaperone is an older person who accompanies other younger people to ensure the propriety of their behaviour, often an older woman accompanying a young woman while supervisor is (management) a person with the official task of overseeing the work of a person or group.As a verb chaperone
is to act as a chaperone.chaperone
English
(wikipedia chaperone)Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* chaperoneship * cochaperoneVerb
(en-verb)- 'Purcell had volunteered to chaperone a delegation of female students'