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# jettison

«jettison» in Mova's school dictionary: **to throw it out of a ship, plane or spacecraft to make it…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

verb (jettison, jettisons, jettisoned, jettisoning)

### meaning for a pupil

1) To jettison something is to throw it out of a ship, plane or spacecraft to make it lighter, often in an emergency. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/jettison/#m1)

2) To jettison an idea or plan is to drop it or give it up because it is not useful. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/jettison/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

Science and space lessons: rockets jettison empty fuel tanks. Stories: sailors jettison cargo in a storm. Everyday and formal: «jettison the plan».

### examples

- The rocket jettisoned its empty boosters. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/jettison/#x1)
- The sailors jettisoned the cargo to stop the ship sinking. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/jettison/#x2)
- The pilot jettisoned fuel before landing. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/jettison/#x3)
- We jettisoned our first idea and started again. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/jettison/#x4)
- The balloonists jettisoned sandbags to rise higher. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/jettison/#x5)
- The company jettisoned the old logo. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/jettison/#x6)

### note

Regular: jettisoned (one «n»). Say «JET-ih-sun». Similar: dump, discard, ditch.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «jettison» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/jettison/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.