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Definition of jettison : 1. See Jetsam, 1.
2. The throwing overboard of goods from necessity, in order to lighten a vessel in danger of wreck.

Synonyms:

dump, dispose of, keep, throw out, chuck, ditch, throw away, cast off

discard, reject, clip, disclaim, snip, blacklist, vomit, curtail, ejaculate, eject, shed, discharge, abandon, seep, exclude, cut, exude, chop, check, emit, cull, junk, blackball, excrete, scrap, excise, disapprove, shear, crop, exhaust, oppugn, drain, belch, disgorge, erupt, secrete, deep-six, evacuate, jilt, vent, deny, trash, disallow, bar, lop, eliminate, spew

dispose, abdicate, forgo, relinquish, relegate, release, desert, part with, renounce, capitulate, cancel, drop, surrender, dispel, vacate, leave, rid, waive, dismiss, disown, forsake, let go

Usage examples:

• You will not come to me when all is over and ask me to jettison the jacket? - "Right Ho, Jeeves", P. G. Wodehouse.
• While Christianity was thus publicly denied by its priests and its pastors, the religions of Asia were no less ready to jettison the inconvenient thoughts of their founders. - "The Forerunners", Romain Rolland.
• It was sink or swim, and not his was the mind to elect to go under when the jettison of a last lingering scruple or two would keep him afloat. - "The Sign of the Spider", Bertram Mitford.