Usually means: Proteins that assist in folding.
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General (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. chaperones: Merriam-Webster
  2. chaperones: Collins English Dictionary
  3. chaperones: Vocabulary.com
  4. chaperones: Wordnik
  5. chaperones: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. chaperones: Wiktionary
  7. chaperones: Dictionary.com
  8. chaperones: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Chaperones (biology), The Chaperones: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. chaperones: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Chaperones (biology), chaperones: Legal dictionary

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. chaperones: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Chaperones (biology), chaperones: Medical dictionary

(Note: See chaperone as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (chaperone)

noun:  An older person who accompanies other younger people to ensure the propriety of their behaviour, often an older woman accompanying a young woman.
noun:  (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.
noun:  (UK, business) An employee sent by a British company to the European Union to work with a client there, to circumvent restrictions imposed after Brexit.
verb:  To act as a chaperone.
verb:  (UK, business) To work as a chaperone.
▸ Also see chaperone

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