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jettisonsnounpl. of jettison the getting rid of whatever is unwanted or uselesswith his ship rapidly sinking, the captain ordered a last-ditch jettison of much of its cargo disposals, dispositions, dumpings, removals, riddances clearances, clearingsdecimations, demolishments, demolitions, destructions accumulations, acquirements, acquisitions, collections, deposits, gatherings jettisonsverbpresent tense third-person singular of jettisonto get rid of as useless or unwantedjust jettison that plan, because we know it won't work cashiers, casts (off), chucks, deep-sixes, discards, ditches, dumps, eighty-sixes(or 86es), exorcises(also exorcizes), flings (off or away), junks, lays by, loses, pitches, rejects, scraps, sheds, shucks (off), sloughs (off)also sluffs (off), throws away, throws out, tosses, unloads abandons, abdicates, deserts, forsakesdismisses, kicks outabolishes, annihilates, eliminates, eradicates, expunges, exterminates, extinguishes, extirpates, liquidates, removes, roots (out), stamps (out), wipes out disposes of, sets aside adopts, embraces, takes onemploys, uses, utilizesholds, holds back, keeps, retains |