parachute
noun
- the aggregate of benefits, as severance pay or vacation pay, given an employee who is dismissed from a company.
- golden parachute.
verb (used with object), par·a·chut·ed, par·a·chut·ing.
verb (used without object), par·a·chut·ed, par·a·chut·ing.
Origin of parachute
Related Words for parachute
plummet, skip, dive, drop, bound, bounce, surge, take, hop, fall, vault, top, quiver, barge, rattle, pop, hurdle, shake, trip, caperExamples from the Web for parachute
Contemporary Examples of parachute
Are you the kind of criminal who steals a plane and then jumps without a parachute from high over a body of water?
I Felt Like Showering After the First-Person Sex in ‘Grand Theft Auto’Alec Kubas-Meyer
November 22, 2014
Daniel Craig, in his finest Bond dinner jacket, called at the Palace and invited her to parachute into the stadium with him.
Imagining Prince Charles as King Makes All of Britain Wish They Could Leave Like ScotlandClive Irving
September 17, 2014
And for wingsuit divers, the only way flight can be “real” is if one can land without a parachute.
The modern history of the flight, however, gets its start with Jacques-Sébastien Lenormand and his parachute in 1783.
The second story, which really picks up steam in the latter half of the book, is the race to land without a parachute.
Historical Examples of parachute
He knew he was falling, jerking down as the parachute ripped on the boughs.
Raiders InvisibleDesmond Winter Hall
This was attached to a parachute which, if the emergency arose, could be dropped.
Lords of the StratosphereArthur J. Burks
He came down by parachute, without the ball in which he should have sealed himself.
Lords of the StratosphereArthur J. Burks
He had no parachute and no life belt or Mae West suit to float him.
A Yankee Flier Over BerlinAl Avery
Your hand weapons and food supplies will be dropped by parachute as we leave.
The Space RoverEdwin K. Sloat