JETTISON

[verb] [T] - to throw away or get rid of (something or someone that is not wanted or needed)The company has been forced to jettison 200 employees due to financial problems.The airline has jettisoned first class and introduced a new business class on its flights.Sue Jones, who has been running the department for over 10 years, has been jettisoned in favour of a younger manager.If you jettison an idea or plan, you decide not to use it.We've had to jettison our holiday plans because of David's accident.Old ideas of teaching foreign languages have been jettisoned for new ideas based on recent research.If a ship or aircraft jettisons goods, fuel or equipment, it throws them out in order to make itself lighter.The plane was forced to jettison its load of provisions and make an emergency landing when one of its engines suddenly failed.