parachute kid
US
noun
A child of wealthy East Asian parents who is left in the United States to attend school while his or her parents live abroad.
Origin
1990s; earliest use found in The Los Angeles Times.
- complementary angle
- complementary colour
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- complementary DNA
- complementary function
- complementary medicine
- complementation
- complement fixation test
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