Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To cast overboard or off.
- transitive verb Informal To discard (something) as unwanted or burdensome.
- noun The act of discarding or casting overboard.
- noun Jetsam.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In law, the throwing overboard of goods or merchandise, especially for the purpose of easing a ship in time of danger or distress.
- To throw overboard, especially for the purpose of easing and saving a ship in time of danger.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Mar. Law) The throwing overboard of goods from necessity, in order to lighten a vessel in danger of wreck.
- noun See
Jetsam , 1.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun uncountable Collectively, items that have been or are about to be
ejected from a boat or balloon. - noun countable The action of jettisoning items.
- verb To
eject from aboat ,submarine ,aircraft ,spaceship or hot-airballoon , so as tolighten the load. - verb To
let go or get rid of as being useless ordefective ;discard .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb throw as from an airplane
- verb throw away, of something encumbering
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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I've got a few clean-up issues to attend to, not least of all my need to "jettison" (to borrow Bill's oh-so-apt word choice) the frame story - which is something I've been thinking about ever since moriarty6 suggested the same.
Bipolar Bear could take over the world, if she could only get out of bed moriarty6 2006
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But we find that, when someone wants to make a major change in their lives, especially around breaking out of chemical abuse, if they kind of jettison that person who was part of that abuse with them, that ` s usually a very positive step.
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Television, as you know, can kind of jettison you into a whole new world.
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"But," I asked, "do not the men object to this kind of jettison?"
Overland through Asia; Pictures of Siberian, Chinese, and Tartar Life Thomas Wallace Knox 1865
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Obviously Spansion is bullish about their business going forward although they've shrunk it kind of jettison the mobile market.
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Obviously Spansion is bullish about their business going forward although they've shrunk it kind of jettison the mobile market.
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I wonder if Barack Obama has a backup plan - a "jettison" option, if you will - on any references he may make to "global warming" during his inaugural speech - just in case wind chills are hovering around zero on January 20th.
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2. Add up all the people who vote Republican but want to "jettison" anti-abortion or pro-gun.
The Democratic Convention. Ann Althouse 2008
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'unseen hand' was at work to 'jettison' the truth in the sensational case.
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"jettison" ( "a voluntary sacrifice of cargo to lighten a ship's load in time of distress") entered English in the 15th century; the verb has been with us since the 19th century.
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