parachute

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para|chute /p'ærəʃuːt/ (parachutes parachuting parachuted)
1 [N-COUNT] also by N
A parachute is a device which enables a person to jump from an aircraft and float safely to the ground. It consists of a large piece of thin cloth attached to your body by strings.
They fell 41,000 ft. before opening their parachutes...
2 [VERB] V prep/adv, be V-ed prep/adv
If a person parachutes or someone parachutes them somewhere, they jump from an aircraft using a parachute.
He was a courier for the Polish underground and parachuted into Warsaw...
He was parachuted in.
3 [VERB] V n prep/adv
To parachute something somewhere means to drop it somewhere by parachute.
Supplies were parachuted into the mountains.
= drop
4 [VERB] V into, be V-ed into
If a person parachutes into an organization or if they are parachuted into it, they are brought in suddenly in order to help it.
...a consultant who parachutes into corporations and helps provide strategic thinking.
There was intense speculation 18 months ago that the former foreign secretary might be parachuted into the Scottish Parliament.gold|en para|chute (golden parachutes)
[N-COUNT]
A golden parachute is an agreement to pay a large amount of money to a senior executive of a company if they are forced to leave. (BUSINESS)
Golden parachutes entitle them to a full year's salary if they get booted out of the company.

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