0 past simple and past participle of ditch --
1 to get rid of something or someone that is no longer wanted: --
2 to land an aircraft in water in an emergency --
Does he still believe in what he referred to as "a major extension of public ownership of control", or has he ditched that as well?
After 10 years of struggle, massive motorway proposals were ditched, possibly for electoral reasons.
Private enterprise would have ditched it by now whatever its merits.
To take an extreme and optimistic example, let us suppose that the common agricultural policy was finally ditched, to the benefit of most people.
What will happen to the fishermen who are ditched along with their vessels?
Does that mean that the policy that his party took into the general election has been ditched?
It means that the policies that he has been advancing may be ditched by the new leader.
Many of the fashionable shibboleths of two or three years ago have been utterly and completely ditched.
