Jettison Definition

jĕtĭ-sən, -zən
jettisoned, jettisoning, jettisons
verb
To throw (goods) overboard.
Webster's New World
To discard (something) as useless or a burden.
Webster's New World

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.
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noun
The act of discarding or casting overboard.
American Heritage
A throwing overboard of goods to lighten a ship, airplane, etc. in an emergency.
Webster's New World
Jetsam.
American Heritage

Jetsam.

Webster's New World

(uncountable) Collectively, items that have been or are about to be ejected from a boat or balloon.

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Noun

Singular:
jettison
Plural:
jettisons

Origin of Jettison

  • From Middle English jetteson a throwing overboard of goods to lighten ship from Anglo-Norman getteson from Vulgar Latin iectātiō iectātiōn- from iectātus past participle of *iectāre to throw jet2

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Anglo-Norman getteson, from Old French getaison (French: would be *jetaison like pendaison). Cognate to jetsam

    From Wiktionary

Jettison Sentence Examples

  • Speedferries will, in addition, have an absolute discretion to jettison, land, destroy or render innocuous any goods such as those described above.

  • He himself must bear a part of it, for those goods formed part of the adventure for whose safety the jettison was made; and it is owing to the partial safety of the adventure that any contribution at all is received by him.

  • For many centuries Egypt was famous as a wheat raiser; it was a cargo of wheat from Alexandria which St Paul helped to jettison on one of his shipwrecks, as was also, in all probability, that of the "ship of Alexandria whose sign was Castor and Pollux," named in the same narrative.

  • The Sea of Faith must not jettison this half of our tradition.

  • Rule Ii.-Damage By Jettison And Sacrifice For The Common Safety Damage done to a ship and cargo, or either of them, by or in consequence of a sacrifice made for the common safety, and by water which goes down a ship's hatches opened, or other opening made for the purpose of making a jettison for the common safety, shall be made good as G.A.

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