jettison
verb (used with object)
to cast (goods) overboard in order to lighten a vessel or aircraft or to improve its stability in an emergency.
will jettison
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future tenseof jettison.future tense
Used to express actions, events, or states that have not yet occurred but are expected to happen.
Example Sentences
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The plan also will jettison Hardy Holzman Pfeiffer’s blocky, out-of-scale Robert O. Anderson wing abutting Wilshire.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 20, 2020
To slim down, it will jettison research products with less likelihood of success.
From Reuters ● Oct. 1, 2013
It will jettison research products with less likelihood of success.
From Reuters ● Oct. 1, 2013
The company, whose weak stock market performance led to the removal in May of Andrew Moss, the chief executive, will jettison 16 businesses that account for 18 percent of operating profit, it said on Thursday.
From New York Times ● Jul. 6, 2012
It is likely that Viacom will jettison Blockbuster late in 1999, probably selling it in pieces, starting with an initial public offering.
From Time Magazine Archive
