0 past simple and past participle of parachute
They are therefore not people who will have been parachuted in for the pleasure of sitting in on endless common council meetings.
Women were parachuted behind the lines in other countries.
A new chief executive was parachuted in to take out the old style of management.
I have made it clear that the admissions code will hold, and that schools cannot be parachuted in.
Projects must not be parachuted in from outside and not steered by quangos which take pride in their invisibility and anonymity, by-passing elected local government.
A vacancy may under these arrangements be filled by people whom the electorate have already rejected or who are unacceptable but who are parachuted in.
They certainly do not want police authorities chaired by right-wing commissars parachuted in by ministerial decree.
It would be disingenuous to suggest that anybody is parachuted at the last moment without having gone through that process, as that is not happening.
