parachute, übersetzung im Collins English Cobuild & Thesaurus Wörterbuch

parachute (parachutes plural & 3rd person present) (parachuting present participle) (parachuted past tense & past participle )

1 n-count 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 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... V prep/adv

3 verb To parachute something somewhere means to drop it somewhere by parachute. (=drop)
Supplies were parachuted into the mountains. V n prep/adv

golden parachute (golden parachutes plural )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) n-count
Golden parachutes entitle them to a full year's salary if they get booted out of the company.