noun
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(collective) Items that have been or are about to be ejected from a boat or balloon.
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The action of jettisoning items.
verb
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To eject from a boat, submarine, aircraft, spaceship or hot-air balloon, so as to lighten the load.
example
The ballooners had to jettison all of their sand bags to make it over the final hill.
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To let go or get rid of as being useless or defective.
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Examples of jettison in a Sentence
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.
Time is of the essence, so you want to possess the capacity to jettison significant portions of the original idea and move on to the next iteration.