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jettison
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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
verb EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ Berger jettisoned much of the original movie plot. ▪ One crew member accidentally jettisoned half of the plane's fuel. EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ By doing so they have jettisoned a solidarity that could have united them against ...
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Jettison may refer to: Jettison (album) , an album by Chicago punk rock band Naked Raygun, released in 1988 Jettison (record label) , a Chicago-based indie record label owned by Jeff Pezzati of Naked Raygun Jettison (Steady Ground album) , an album by Alternative ...
Wiktionary
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n. 1 (context uncountable English) Collectively, items that have been or are about to be ejected from a boat or balloon. 2 (context countable English) The action of jettisoning items. vb. 1 To eject from a boat, submarine, aircraft, spaceship or hot-air ...
Usage examples of jettison.
All Archaeon cultures, along with the containers holding them, should be incinerated in onboard crucible and the ashes jettisoned.
It was no longer visible, not just because of the jettisoning of the rocket motor but because it was cruising below the radar grass, maybe only forty feet above the water.
The decision to delay activation of many of the reservists and to jettison the TPFDL delayed the establishment of the Theater Support Command, which was to manage the logistics for the ground forces, and played havoc with the deployments.
Jones jettisoned his manners and swiveled as Clarice walked regally forward.
I jettisoned the unprofitable routes, retracted the company back to Quartz River, reorganized the dock, and used my training at Tey to improve service.
If the witenagemot really wants to jettison Cynewulf this time, it will have to promote a new family to royalty.
Christianson were attempting to update the autopilot in order to find a good stretch of empty space to jettison the crew when Bill walked in alone, having drawn the short straw.
The twenty-four pounders, like the six field guns that should have been delivered to Baltimore, were likewise spiked, turned off their carriages, and jettisoned into the flooded ditch.
The mind screamed the order to the thought-guidance system, and the last of the decoys in the Rearward Defence Pod was jettisoned.
Swane, whose plans for going back to Seant had just been jettisoned by some process that he never would understand.
An attack by tactical fighters against Iceland was expected at any time, and the bomber crews knew that any NATO fighter pilot worthy of his name would instantly jettison his bombload for a chance at air-to-air combat with so helpless a target as a twenty-year-old Badger.
Through ghettoization, the Jew was jettisoned beyond that boundary and placed psychologically and physically outside the culture, its practices and values, its social and political institutions and living spaces.
She disliked the crucifixes hanging on the walls so Massena jettisoned them through the window, then asked what she would like to eat.
A cook jettisoned a bucket of slops over the side and gulls, screaming like banshees, swooped from the air between the yards to fight over the scraps.
They began to jettison their submunitions, and everything became far too complicated for the human mind to follow.