Usually means: Leave current position for another.
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  1. jump ship: Merriam-Webster
  2. jump ship: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. jump ship: Collins English Dictionary
  4. jump ship: Wiktionary
  5. jump ship: Dictionary.com
  6. jump ship: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. jump ship: Idioms

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)

Definitions from Wiktionary (jump ship)

verb:  (nautical) To depart from a ship, especially without permission.
verb:  (figurative) To leave something, especially suddenly or rapidly.

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