Deploy

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • v. To position (troops) in readiness for combat, as along a front or line.
  • v. To bring (forces or material) into action.
  • v. To base (a weapons system) in the field.
  • v. To distribute (persons or forces) systematically or strategically.
  • v. To put into use or action: "Samuel Beckett's friends suspected that he was a genius, yet no one knew . . . how his abilities would be deployed” ( Richard Ellmann).
  • verb-intransitive. To be or become deployed.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • v. To prepare and arrange (usually military unit or units) for use.
  • v. To unfold, open, or otherwise become ready for use.
  • v. to install, test and implement a computer system or application.
  • n. deployment
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • v. To open out; to unfold; to spread out (a body of troops) in such a way that they shall display a wider front and less depth; -- the reverse of ploy.
  • v. To place (people or other resources) into a position so as to be ready to for action or use.
  • n. The act of deploying; a spreading out of a body of men in order to extend their front.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Milit., to expand; display; extend in a line of small depth, as a division or a battalion which has been previously formed in one or more columns.
  • Milit., to open out; extend; move so as to form a more extended front or line: as, the regiment deployed to the right.
  • n. Milit., the expansion or opening out of a body of troops previously compacted into a column, so as to present a more extended front.
  • To spread out, as the lower end of a valley glacier which extends out on a plain.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • v. to distribute systematically or strategically
  • v. place troops or weapons in battle formation
  • Equivalent
    deployment   
    Verb Form
    deployed    deploying    deploys   
    Form
    deployed    deploying   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    unfold    extend   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Elroy    Floy    Goy    Illinois    Joy    Oi    Roy    Savoy    Troy    ahoy   
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    Words that are found in similar contexts