(military) A large area of firm ground, formerly usually adjacent to fortifications and now usually a paved area at a military base, where soldiers present themselves for inspection ("parade") and practice marching and close-order drills.

(idiomatic, business, management) An agreement between a company and an employee, usually an executive, specifying that the employee will receive certain significant benefits if employment is terminated.

At the same time; together, or cotemporally. / (electricity) Electrical components connected side by side, instead of in series.

plural of parallel import

A legitimate product imported from another country without the permission of the intellectual property owner.

(medicine) An aggressive behaviour sometimes manifested by patients taking certain drugs, such as benzodiazepines.

plural of paradoxical rage reaction

(set theory) The paradox that supposing the existence of a set of all ordinal numbers leads to a contradiction; construed as meaning that it is not a properly defined set.

(set theory) The paradox that a set defined to contain all sets which do not contain themselves can neither consistently contain itself nor not contain itself.

The seeds or seed capsules of Aframomum melegueta, used as a medicine and spice, especially as a substitute for black pepper and in flavoring alcoholic beverages.