| Definitions | jettison
noun
- (uncountable) Collectively, items that have been or are about to be ejected from a boat or balloon.
- (countable) The action of jettisoning items.
verb
- To eject from a boat, submarine, aircraft, or hot-air balloon, so as to lighten the load.
- The ballooners had to all of their sand bags to make it over the final hill.
- To let go or get rid of as being useless or defective; discard.
Translations: - French: (t, fr, délester)
(trans-mid)
- German: í¼ber Bord werfen, Ballast abwerfen
- Spanish: desechar, expeler
(trans-bottom)
Etymology: From getteson, from getaison (French: would be jetaison like pendaison).
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