I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
golden parachute
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
golden
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Mr deVries says it was never clear the exact terms of Mr Homburg's golden parachute or his priority shares.
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He bailed out at just the right time and floated the short distance to earth in a golden parachute .
■ NOUN
jump
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Students at the college have raised £6,000 for the appeal so far by parachute jumps and other fund-raising efforts.
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When Amelia learned to fly in 1921, Lieutenant Harris's parachute jump was still almost two years in the future.
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In the same year he made his first parachute jump from an airship.
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There's archery on-site too as well as a simulated parachute jump .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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During the usual paramilitary, parachute , and security training it emerged that she was an admirable shot.
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Earth arrival is accomplished by aerocapture, followed by descent of the sample container under a parachute .
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Ford, who weighed about 170 pounds, used a 135-square-foot parachute .
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It shows this air crew just as he baled out of the aircraft less his parachute harness which he had abandoned on landing.
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Jack fell for Polly like a man with no parachute .
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Make a rough sketch of a parachute on the board.
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Put the word parachute on the board, as well as other key words in the students' comments.
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The children join gleefully in the Frisbee-throwing, football and parachute games, and demand piggy backs from the adults.
II. verb
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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And he has failed to develop a mature political persona since he parachuted with fanfare into the national arena last autumn.
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But the ability of a Steve Forbes to parachute into that field shows a vacuum there.
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He hoped that the rear gunner had been able to parachute to safety.
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It is built into the structure of some sports, such as skiing, parachuting, and flying.
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Long before the sport was given a name, people were parachuting from tall objects.
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She stood and her skirt parachuted back into position.
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The rockets fire for two minutes at launch before they are jettisoned from the shuttle to parachute into the sea.
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Thus when the glider is launched it takes a second cable and parachute up with it.