Usually means: Throwing cargo overboard to lighten.
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  1. jettisoning: Merriam-Webster
  2. jettisoning: Collins English Dictionary
  3. jettisoning: Vocabulary.com
  4. Jettisoning, jettisoning: Wordnik
  5. jettisoning: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. jettisoning: Wiktionary
  7. jettisoning: Dictionary.com
  8. jettisoning: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. jettisoning: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. jettisoning: Legal dictionary

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  1. jettisoning: Encyclopedia

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▸ noun:  The action by which something is jettisoned.

Similar:
discarding, discardment, ejectment, offthrow, elimination, shedding, dumping, offloading, throwoff, ditching, more...

Opposite:
retaining, keeping, holding on to

Adjectives:
wholesale, complete, final, prompt, hasty, shameful, rapid, further

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Similar:
discarding, discardment, ejectment, offthrow, elimination, shedding, dumping, offloading, throwoff, ditching, more...

Opposite:
retaining, keeping, holding on to

Adjectives:
wholesale, complete, final, prompt, hasty, shameful, rapid, further



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