convoy
Other forms: convoys; convoyed; convoying
To travel in a convoy is to be escorted by a group of protective vehicles. If you are a teenage rock star with millions of fans, you probably need a security convoy just to go visit your grandmother.
If the President visits your town, you may see a huge convoy of secret service vehicles, limousines, and police cars. Ships can also travel in convoys, with those carrying valuable items surrounded by warships. As a verb, convoy describes the act of traveling together, like when your family and other families convoy to a camp ground, driving in a group, making stops together, and waving to each other on the highway.
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the act of escorting while in transit
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a procession of land vehicles traveling togethertype of:processionthe group action of a collection of people or animals or vehicles moving ahead in more or less regular formation
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a collection of merchant ships with an escort of warshipstype of:accumulation, aggregation, assemblage, collectionseveral things grouped together or considered as a whole
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escort in transit“the trucks convoyed the cars across the battle zone”“the warships convoyed the merchant ships across the Pacific”type of:escortaccompany as an escort
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