A convoy is a group of vehicles or ships travelling together. a U.N. convoy carrying food and medical supplies They travel in convoy with armed guards. a group of vehicles or ships travelling together, sometimes in order to protect one another convoy of (convoi, from conveier, convoier; CONVEY). to travel with something in order to protect it. Vessels sailing under the protection of an armed escort. Since the 17th century, neutral powers have claimed the right of convoy in wartime, providing warships to escort their merchantmen and keep them secure from search or seizure. In World War I the British organized transatlantic convoys protected by a cordon of warships; the same system protected Allied shipping from German submarines during the Battle of the Atlantic in World War II. During the Iran-Iraq War (1980-90), oil tankers transiting the Strait of Hormuz into and out of the Persian Gulf were escorted by warships of the U.S. and other Western navies
The act of attending for defense; the state of being so attended; protection; escort
the act of escorting while in transit a collection of merchant ships with an escort of warships a procession of land vehicles traveling together escort in transit; "the trucks convoyed the cars across the battle zone"; "the warships convoyed the merchant ships across the Pacific
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To accompany for protection, either by sea or land; to attend for protection; to escort; as, a frigate convoys a merchantman