to deploy
- verb
- /dɪˈplɔɪ/
- The government will deploy additional rescue teams to assist in disaster recovery efforts.
- deploy troops
- deploy forces
- deploy soldiers
Walls retired instead of being deployed to Iraq.
- Walls retired instead of being deployed to Iraq.
- They should have had firefighting crews already deployed ready to go.
- They could see who was going to get hit before they deployed that malware.
- No, I think it gets deployed into, into future strategies.
- Four months after being deployed, a pipe bomb blew up his Humvee.
- I promise a big part of this is you're not deploying what you learn.
- Like the six guys that we deploy with?
Examples
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Neither side can deploy its troops nor gain an advantage.
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Our soldiers and police are still deployed there on the ground.
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Yeah, I can deploy guys ahead if we want.
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So what we're going to do is deploy as per usual.
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So Intel has said that they plan to deploy a hardware fix.
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Deploy a team at the hotel and personally check their come every 30 minutes.
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Yeah, how many people are you deploying with?
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Land the choppers on the back side and deploy as planned.
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Thus, the network structure was being deployed to mobilize church members for a public action.
Academic text (1999) -
Few of the clean-energy technologies being widely deployed today are economically viable without significant government support.
Academic text (2011)
Synonyms
Give parts of something, like money or time, to people for a planned purpose
To introduce a new product or service to the public
To set up computer systems or online services so they are ready to use
Antonyms
How Prepared
Surface Forms
Etymology
Deploy comes from the parts de- ('away' or 'un-') and plicare ('to fold'), so it originally meant 'to unfold' or 'spread out'. Think of troops or equipment being 'unfolded' across an area — that's why to deploy people or resources is to arrange or send them out where they are needed.