Synonyms for jettison
ˈdʒɛt ə sən, -zənjet·ti·son

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1. jettisonnoun

   Synonyms:
   jetsam

2. jettisonnoun

   To eject from a boat, submarine, aircraft, spaceship or hot-air balloon, so as to lighten the load.

   Synonyms:
   jetsam, dump, chuck, discard, ditch, junk, scrap, toss, lose

3. jettisonverb

   To let go or get rid of as being useless or defective; discard.

   Synonyms:
   jetsam, ditch, toss, chuck, dump, scrap, junk, lose, discard

Princeton's WordNet

1. jettisonverb

   throw away, of something encumbering

2. jettisonverb

   throw as from an airplane

Matched Categories

1. • Discard
   • Throw

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1. List of paraphrases for "jettison":

   dump

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How to use jettison in a sentence?

1. Wendy Young:

   I fear that one of the insidious agenda items here is for the administration to jettison the protections... all the policies and procedures we built up over the years to protect the children in the system, we were starting to get there and then under this administration -- a system that has taken us 30 years to build, it's taken them three months to tear down.