jettison
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noun- 1.
(collective, uncountable)Items that have been or are about to be ejected from a boat or balloon.
Đồng nghĩa: jetsam ballast
- 2.
(countable)The action of jettisoning items.
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verb- 1.
To eject from a boat, submarine, aircraft, spaceship or hot-air balloon, so as to lighten the load.
The ballooners had to jettison all of their sand bags to make it over the final hill.
The fuel tanks were jettisoned.
- 2.
(figuratively)(figurative) To let go or get rid of as being useless or defective.
Đồng nghĩa: discard, chuck, ditch, dump, junk, lose, junk, 86, bin, can, cast aside, cast off, cast away, chuck, chuck away, chuck out, discard, dispose of, ditch, dump, get rid of, jettison, pitch, scrap, shift, throw aside, throw away, throw out, toss, trash
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ine-pro From getteson, from Old French getaison, from geter, jeter (modern French: would be *jetaison like pendaison); possibly from a *iectātiō, from *iectātus < iectāre, from Latin iactō. jetsam.