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US
/ˈdʒɛtɪsən/
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[ UK /dʒˈɛtɪsən/ ]
[ UK /dʒˈɛtɪsən/ ]
VERB
- throw away, of something encumbering
- throw as from an airplane
How To Use jettison In A Sentence
- This seems more honest to me than jettisoning the stuff far out to space where who knows what damage it might do in the faroff reaches of the sky.
- The crew jettisoned excess fuel and made an emergency landing.
- A television camera aboard Discovery's giant external fuel tank provided never-before-seen images of the shuttle jettisoning the tank and moving away.
- Jettison the jetpack and fold up the flying car. Times, Sunday Times
- Opponents then charged that the east coast institution was jettisoning part of the city's cultural legacy.
- Those who want to simply jettison him go too far.
- No philosopher would jettison Plato just because it's old fashioned, nor would anyone mock the old fogy Whitman.
- The antenna and its filament mesh stretched nearly one hundred yards and could be jettisoned by verbal command. DALE BROWN'S DREAMLAND (5) STRIKE ZONE
- I entered autorotation, jettisoned the external load and landed the aircraft.
- Vomiting and stomach eversion also jettison parasites and excess mucus. The Scientist
