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parachute
noun as in safety net
Example Sentences
Sels accepted the gamble of leaving the relative comfort of life at Strasbourg in Ligue 1 to parachute into Forest's relegation battle.
The reintroduced version will give the regulator powers to assess the impact of the Premier League's controversial 'parachute payments' to relegated clubs as part of a 'State of the Game' review every five years.
Relegation would lead to finance director Roger Bell,who is across all the major expenditure, checking out the Premier League's parachute payment situation.
Above her couch, she has hung her most prized family possessions: photos of her grandmother featured in the Evansville Press in Indiana in 1964 after she learned to skydive and joined a parachute club.
"They found art to be the parachute that can save them, and they poured themselves into it, and it poured back into them."
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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