Usually means: Thrown out, usually from ship.
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General (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. jettisoned: Merriam-Webster
  2. jettisoned: Collins English Dictionary
  3. jettisoned: Vocabulary.com
  4. Jettisoned, jettisoned: Wordnik
  5. jettisoned: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. jettisoned: Wiktionary
  7. jettisoned: Dictionary.com
  8. jettisoned: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Jettisoned: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. jettisoned: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. jettisoned: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. jettisoned: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (jettison)

noun:  (uncountable, collective) Items that have been or are about to be ejected from a boat or balloon.
noun:  (countable) The action of jettisoning items.
verb:  To eject from a boat, submarine, aircraft, spaceship or hot-air balloon, so as to lighten the load.
verb:  (figurative) To let go or get rid of as being useless or defective.
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