to deploy
- verb
- /dɪˈplɔɪ/
- The government will deploy additional rescue teams to assist in disaster recovery efforts.
- deploy troops
- deploy forces
- deploy soldiers
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Watch on YouTubeWalls 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
To introduce a new product or service to the public
Give parts of something, like money or time, to people for a planned purpose
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.