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/dʒˈɛtɪsən/ Listen

Jettison

verb

Throw away, of something encumbering.

Throw as from an airplane.

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"Jettison" Quotes from Famous Books

... mind that garbage-disposal was hardly a subject one would expect to be discussing in interplanetary space. But the Platform wasn't the same thing as a spaceship. A ship could jettison refuse and leave it behind, or store it during a voyage and dump it at either end. But the Space Platform would never land. It could roll on forever. And if it heaved out its refuse from airlocks—why—the stuff would still have the Platform's ...

— Space Tug • Murray Leinster

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... had completed his hornpipe on his hat he threw an appealing glance at his new mate. "We'll jettison what freight proves an embarrassment," this astute individual advised. "The farmers that own it will soak you a couple o' hundred dollars for the loss, but what's that with thousands in sight waitin' to be ...

— Captain Scraggs - or, The Green-Pea Pirates • Peter B. Kyne

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Words linked to "Jettison" : throw, cast aside, throw away, discard, dispose, throw out, toss, toss out, put away, cast away, cast out, chuck out, toss away, fling