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to deploy

to deploy

371 5.6
To move and use people or equipment for a specific job
  • verb
  • /dɪˈplɔɪ/
translation icon : desplegar
  • 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.

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Examples

  • Neither side can deploy its troops nor gain an advantage.

  • Our soldiers and police are still deployed there on the ground.

  • Yeah, I can deploy guys ahead if we want.

  • So what we're going to do is deploy as per usual.

  • So Intel has said that they plan to deploy a hardware fix.

  • Deploy a team at the hotel and personally check their come every 30 minutes.

  • Yeah, how many people are you deploying with?

  • Land the choppers on the back side and deploy as planned.

  • 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

to allocate
vsto deploy
92 4.5

Give parts of something, like money or time, to people for a planned purpose

focuses on arranging and actively using people or equipment strategically
to roll out
vsto deploy
43 3.9

To introduce a new product or service to the public

focuses on organizing resources and equipment for use, not public launch
to provision
vsto deploy
  • Specialized
1 6.5

To set up computer systems or online services so they are ready to use

is about arranging and using resources for a specific organized purpose

Antonyms

159 3.5

To take money or things out of a place where they are kept

How Prepared

to mobilize
76 5.8
to deploy
371 5.6
to commit
706 3.4
to station
154 3.6
to assign
487 2.7

Surface Forms

deploy infinitive
deployed past
deployed past participle
deploying present participle
deploys third person singular

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.