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parachutist
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
parachutist
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ All the troops on board were trained and fully equipped parachutists.
▪ However, some years would pass before selected commandos were trained as parachutists.
▪ Mr Claridge is seen here on the lower parachute ... standing on his shoulders is parachutist John Boxall.
▪ Nine other people were slightly hurt and parachutist Chris Lomax suffered arm and leg injuries.
▪ Read in studio A coroner has paid tribute to a parachutist who sacrificed his own life to save a colleague.
▪ Since then it had been discovered that one could be a parachutist and live.
▪ The parachutist was examined at Eden Hospital in Castro Valley and released.
▪ The man behind the anniversary jump is veteran parachutist Geoffrey Holmes from Henley-on-Thames.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
parachutist

parachuter \par"a*chut`er\, parachutist \par`a*chut"ist\, n. One who descends from a high altitude to the ground by means of a parachute, especially one who does so for sport or in a military operation.

Wiktionary
parachutist

n. someone who jumps from an aircraft using a parachute, especially as a sport

WordNet
parachutist

n. a person who jumps from aircraft using a parachute [syn: parachuter, parachute jumper]

Usage examples of "parachutist".

One biker walks up to a parachutist at the bar and asks him to cut a deck of cards.

One is that when the civil population is unarmed, parachutists, cyclists and stray tanks can not only work fearful havoc but draw off large bodies of regular troops who should be opposing the main enemy.

Joel shared his hopes of taking up skydiving so he could make a living chronicling parachutists as they made their thrilling descents.

As I sat in the dressing room preparing to embark on a professional boxing career, I kept thinking of Joel doing something equally unimaginable, like jumping out of airplanes in order to fill his portfolio with photos of parachutists drifting in the wind.

They fall to earth, fouled parachutists, botched and cindery angels, love streaming out behind them like torn silk.

They are said to be useful against tanks and will be absolutely necessary if enemy parachutists with machine-guns manage to establish themselves in our big towns.

At the beginning the intention was simply to deal with parachutists, but the events in France and the Low Countries had caused an exaggerated fear of Fifth Columnists, and the authorities had evidently some notion of turning the Home Guard into a sort of auxiliary police force.

Somewhat later the loss of Crete showed what can be done by parachutists and airborne troops, and tactics for dealing with them were worked out.

But this time, instead of just making a swing around the field and then dropping the parachutists, the pilot flew the airplane out to the ocean, and then over the beach from Asbury Park down to Point Pleasant, and then back and forth several times, until he apparently got the word on the radio and flew back to Lakehurst.

He wasn't even a parachutist, so obviously he didn't have jump boots.

Lieutenant Macklin thought that parachutist trainees had more important things to do in their off-duty hours than loll around on their asses, and had placed the service club off limits to trainees except on weekends.

At the back of the passenger cabin was a slide like a water chute, down which the parachutists would glide into space.