Jettison
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English
Noun
Jettison (plural Jettisons)- (uncountable) Collectively, items that have been or are about to be ejected from a boat or balloon.
- (countable) The action of jettisoning items.
Synonyms
- (items jettisoned): jetsam
Verb
Jettison (third-person singular simple present Jettisons, present participle Jettisoning, simple past and past participle Jettisoned)
- To eject from a boat, submarine, aircraft, spaceship or hot-air balloon, so as to lighten the load.
- The ballooners had to jettison all of their sand bags to make it over the final hill.
- The jettisoning of fuel tanks.
- To let go or get rid of as being useless or defective; discard.
Synonyms
- (to let go or get rid of as being useless): chuck, discard, ditch, dump, junk, lose, scrap, toss
- See also Thesaurus:junk
Thesaurus
abandon, abandonment, abdicate, absentation, back out, beg off, boot out, booting out, bounce, cashier, cast, cast aside, cast away, cast off, cast out, castaway, casting away, castoff, cessation, chuck, chuck out, cry off, deep six, deep-six, defenestrate, defenestration, depart from, desuetude, detrude, detrusion, discard, discarding, discharge, disposal, dispose of, disposition, disuse, ditch, drop out, dump, dumping, eighty-six, eject, ejection, ejectment, eliminate, elimination, evacuate, evacuation, exclude, expel, expulsion, extrude, extrusion, forsake, forsaking, get quit of, get rid of, get shut of, give away, give the hook, go back on, heave out, jettisoning, jilt, junk, junking, kick downstairs, kick out, kicking downstairs, leave, leave behind, leave flat, leaving, maroon, obtrude, obtrusion, oust, ouster, ousting, part with, pull out, pulling out, put out, quit, quit cold, refuse, reject, rejectamenta, rejection, relegation, removal, remove, renege, riddance, say goodbye to, scrap, scrapping, shed, slough, stand down, take leave of, the boot, the bounce, throw away, throw out, throw over, throw overboard, throwaway, throwing out, throwing overboard, thrust out, toss out, toss overboard, turn out, vacate, withdraw, withdrawal
Pronunciation
- (Australian English) IPA: /ˈdʒɛɾəsən/ or IPA: /ˈdʒɛtɪsən/
- (RP) IPA: /ˈdʒɛtɪsən/
- (US) IPA: /ˈdʒɛtɪsən/, /ˈdʒɛtəsən/
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Etymology
From Anglo-Norman getteson, from Old French getaison (French: would be *jetaison like pendaison). Cognate to jetsam
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