JETTISON Synonyms: 78 Similar and Opposite Words

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verb

ˈje-tə-sən

Definition of jettison

as in to discard

to get rid of as useless or unwanted just jettison that plan, because we know it won't work

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jettison

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noun

as in removal

the getting rid of whatever is unwanted or useless with his ship rapidly sinking, the captain ordered a last-ditch jettison of much of its cargo

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Global press almost unanimously noted that the decision to jettison the movie came only three months after Amazon signed a significant partnership with Altman’s OpenAI (including a $50 billion investment in the company). — Matt Donnelly, Variety, 14 Oct. 2026 Quarterback coach Bush Hamdan bears some responsibility for the top quarterbacks under his watch regressing - first Quinn Ewers (who was jettisoned to Jacksonville) and now Willis. — Barry Jackson, Miami Herald, 11 Oct. 2026

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These changes include severable mechanical and fluid connections for the engine section to jettison from the rocket, plus a heat shield and parachute to safely bring the engines back for an ocean recovery downrange from the launch pad. — Stephen Clark, ArsTechnica, 13 Aug. 2025 The tower and fairing assembly, which fit over Orion like a protective shell, include thrusters for abort and jettison of the spacecraft, as well as attitude control (steering) for anomalies that require the spacecraft be quickly and safely separated from SLS. — Josh Dinner, Space.com, 13 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for jettison

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Treating this salty wastewater is expensive and energy-intensive, so much of it is usually discarded because processing the brine at concentrators costs too much.

— Muskan Bhatia, Interesting Engineering, 23 Oct. 2026
Prior to Harmony's launch, the last new room addition to the ISS had occurred in 2001, when Russia's Pirs docking module (since discarded) arrived.

— Tariq Malik, Space.com, 23 Oct. 2026

Definition of discard

Noun

The stadium’s public ownership alone does not establish a violation; the government’s involvement in the removals would be a key question.

— Jackson Thompson OutKick, FOXNews.com, 24 Oct. 2026
People in the country longer may have more opportunities to contest their removal while the government typically has greater authority to fast-track deportations for people arrested at the border.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 23 Oct. 2026

Definition of removal

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Anytime a stock is spun off, there can be an adjustment period as investors who received shares due to ownership in its former parent decide to dump it.

— Kevin Stankiewicz,Jeff Marks, CNBC, 30 Oct. 2026
Farmers dumped manure on the streets of Turin on Friday as mass demonstrations unfurled across more than 50 cities in Italy.

— Barbie Latza Nadeau, CNN Money, 30 Oct. 2026

Definition of dump

Noun

Replacing a sofa means delivery windows, disposal of the old piece and the risk that the new one won’t fit the room or the household’s lifestyle.

— Lauren Jarvis-Gibson, Sacbee.com, 23 Oct. 2026
Other existing Idaho laws on miscarriage management are limited, mostly focused on the disposal of a fetus’s remains and on vital statistics certificates.

— Sarah Cutler, Idaho Statesman, 23 Oct. 2026

Definition of disposal

Verb

Another night charter captain, Jack Passie, and John Alberda lifted the bass out of my boat with a boom used to unload commercial catches.

— Bob Rocchetta as told to Al Ristori, Outdoor Life, 28 Oct. 2026
After shootings like these, calls for gun owners to keep their guns locked, unloaded and separate from ammunition are common.

— Nina Vinik, Chicago Tribune, 27 Oct. 2026

Definition of unload

Noun

Douthat himself describes this project as speculative historical fiction, and the data-dumping, supplemental world-building documents are certainly dense with history and archangels.

— James Folta, Literary Hub, 14 Oct. 2026
The problem became serious enough that Southern states began restricting cottonseed dumping in the mid-1800s.

— Edward D. Melillo, The Conversation, 30 Sep. 2026

Definition of dumping

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Black employees were more likely than others named on the list to have lost their jobs and still be unemployed, the Post found.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 30 Oct. 2026
Beyond that frequency, the optical signal can lose intensity and become less useful for reliable data transmission.

— Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 30 Oct. 2026

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