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.

Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more. The meaning of jettison is to get rid of as superfluous or encumbering : Omit or forgo as part of a plan or as the result of some other decision. How to use jettison in a sentence. If you jettison something, for example an idea or a plan, you deliberately reject it or decide not to use it. The government seems to have jettisoned the plan. Nautical, naval terms to throw (cargo, supplies, etc. ) overboard from a boat or aircraft to lighten it or make it stable in an emergency:

If you jettison something, for example an idea or a plan, you deliberately reject it or decide not to use it. The government seems to have jettisoned the plan. Nautical, naval terms to throw (cargo, supplies, etc. ) overboard from a boat or aircraft to lighten it or make it stable in an emergency: The crew jettisoned some of the cargo as the plane lost altitude. Informal to discard (something) as unwanted or burdensome: Jettisoned the whole marketing plan. The act of discarding or casting overboard. To cast (goods) overboard in order to lighten a vessel or aircraft or to improve its stability in an emergency. See examples of jettison used in a sentence. Refusing & rejecting (definition of jettison from the cambridge advanced learner's dictionary & thesaurus © cambridge university press)

Jettisoned the whole marketing plan. The act of discarding or casting overboard. To cast (goods) overboard in order to lighten a vessel or aircraft or to improve its stability in an emergency. See examples of jettison used in a sentence. Refusing & rejecting (definition of jettison from the cambridge advanced learner's dictionary & thesaurus © cambridge university press)

Refusing & rejecting (definition of jettison from the cambridge advanced learner's dictionary & thesaurus © cambridge university press)