transcription, транскрипция: [ pærəʃu:t ]
( parachutes, parachuting, parachuted)
1.
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...
N-COUNT : also by N
2.
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.
VERB : V prep / adv , be V-ed prep / adv
3.
To parachute something somewhere means to drop it somewhere by parachute.
Supplies were parachuted into the mountains.
= drop
VERB : V n prep / adv
4.
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.
VERB : V into , be V-ed into