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deploy

verbnounattested in dialogue

  • //dɪˈplɔɪ//

To prepare and arrange (originally military unit or units, i.e., to array troops) for use.

verb

  1. 1

    To prepare and arrange (originally military unit or units, i.e., to array troops) for use.

    "Deploy two units of infantry along the enemy's flank," the general ordered.

    deploy some lifeguards on the beach

    Teachers can deploy a wide range of resources in their classrooms.

    The carriage, which was at full gallop, stopped suddenly; the guards deployed round, and Mademoiselle alighted. She advanced with the step of an empress, till she came beside the Queen, when, dropping on her knee, she kissed the hem of her robe, and then the royal hand.

  2. 2

    To unfold, open, or otherwise become ready for use.

    He waited tensely for his parachute to deploy.

    deploy the airbag

    The airbag will deploy on collision.

    At first she thought she would be embarrassed that she had deployed her air bag, that the other expert skiers she was with, more than a dozen of them, would have a good laugh at her panicked overreaction.

  3. 3

    To install, test and implement a computer system or application.

    The process for the deployment scenario includes: building a master installation of the operating system, creating its image and deploying the image onto a destination computer.

Etymology

Borrowed from French déployer (“to unroll, unfold”), from Old French desploiier, itself from des- + ploiier, or possibly from Late Latin displicāre (“to unfold, display”), from Latin dis- (“apart”) + plicare (“to fold”). Compare Middle English desployen, dysployen (“to unfold, display”). Doublet of display.

noun

  1. 1

    Deployment.

    Rolling back the bad deploy will usually solve the immediate production problem, but your team isn't done yet.

  2. 2

    datedDeployment.

Forms

plural
deploys
past tense
deployed
past participle
deployed
present participle
deploying
third person singular
deploys
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

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