verb [VN]
1 to throw sth out of a moving plane or ship to make it lighter:
to jettison fuel
2 to get rid of sth/sb that you no longer need or want
SYNDISCARD:
He was jettisoned as team coach after the defeat.
3 to reject an idea, belief, plan, etc. that you no longer think is useful or likely to be successful
SYNABANDON
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for jettison is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Does jettison appear elsewhere on Lughet?
Yes — jettison appears under other sources or language pairs in Lughet's collection. See the list below.
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