Taking someone around (guiding them from place to place); escorting or showing someone various locations.
週末は市内を観光客として引き回す予定だ。
I'm planning to take someone around the city as a tourist this weekend.
新人社員を工場内に引き回して設備の説明をした。
I guided the new employee around the factory and explained the equipment.
友人を名所に引き回して喜んでもらった。
I showed my friend the sights and they were pleased.
Guidance or the act of directing someone around in sequence; used for escorting in procedures or moving someone through departments/sections.
新入社員は各部署を引き回しで経験を積むことになっている。
New employees are scheduled to gain experience by being rotated through each department.
展示会では担当者が顧客をブースへ引き回して説明した。
At the exhibition, staff led customers around to booths and explained things.
設備の点検では技術者を順に引き回して状態を確認する。
During inspections, technicians are led around in sequence to check conditions.
(Archaic) The practice of parading a criminal through town before execution—a historical punitive display (Edo-period practice).
江戸時代には罪人の引き回しが見せしめとして行われた記録がある。
Records show that, in the Edo period, parading criminals was carried out as a deterrent.
古文書には処刑前の引き回しの様子が詳しく書かれている。
Old documents describe in detail the parading of prisoners before execution.