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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
deploy
verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
deploy troops (=send them to a place where they could do something)
▪ Should more troops be deployed?
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
argument
▪ However, as I have indicated, Mr. Collins deployed two further arguments.
army
▪ Moreover, they were forced to deploy an army for both attack and defense.
force
▪ The security forces have deployed more undercover Special Branch and Military Intelligence staff in notorious paramilitary stomping grounds.
forces
▪ There was a pause in which Bandeira visibly deployed his forces.
missile
▪ Unlike the United States, Britain had no large sparsely-populated desert areas in which to deploy strategic missiles.
▪ Either side could then deploy defenses against missiles.
plan
▪ Sir John approved Mr Todd's plans to deploy the tasers as soon as pos sible.
police
▪ The decree gives President Hugo Banzer special powers to deploy police and the military for 90 days.
skill
▪ None the less, they are not always willing or able to deploy this skill.
▪ But he felt that students would not be able to deploy these skills without the scaffolding of data.
▪ But it has other weapons which it deploys with some skill.
▪ Career advancement and annual bonuses depended more on developing and deploying strategy skills than change management skills.
system
▪ For certain technologies, notably strategic defence against nuclear weapons, researching makes more sense than deploying a half-baked system.
unit
▪ I shall address the second point: whether we could deploy naval units in that form of action.
weapon
▪ So the United States has no deployed chemical weapons today and will have none in the future.
▪ The president deployed the weapon with which he has calmed past discontents, saying he would announce his heir-apparent.
▪ They tell us that we should not manufacture and deploy nuclear weapons.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Air bags are only deployed when the car is struck from the front.
▪ Senior Marine Corps officers were preparing to deploy to the Gulf.
▪ UN troops were deployed to keep the peace.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Evelyn Y.. Gregory, when word came that she was being deployed to Bosnia.
▪ However, many staff deployed in the latter way encountered problems in working with colleagues.
▪ I was informed that buses from Livingston depot were deployed to operate journeys starting from Balerno.
▪ In the aerospace and motor industry contexts, composites use different components but deploy them to similar ends.
▪ It would take until 2007 to deploy 50 interceptors-about half the number the Clinton administration originally planned for that date.
▪ Johnson has deployed two fearsome weapons: her connections and her charm.
▪ Months earlier, the carrier Eisenhower, based in Norfolk, Va., deployed with female crew members and aviators.
▪ The exercise is designed to test techniques for deploying large but lightweight inflatable structures.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
deploy

deploy \de*ploy"\, v. t. To place (people or other resources) into a position so as to be ready to for action or use.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
deploy

1786 as a military word, from French déployer "unroll, unfold," from Old French desploiier "unfold," from Latin displicare "unfold, scatter," from dis- (see dis-) + plicare "to fold" see ply (v.1)). "In its AFr. form regularly adopted in ME as desplay" [OED]. Related: Deployed; deploying.

Wiktionary
deploy

n. (context military dated English) deployment vb. 1 (context transitive English) To prepare and arrange (usually military unit or units) for use. 2 (context transitive intransitive English) To unfold, open, or otherwise become ready for use. 3 (context computing English) to install, test and implement a computer system or application.

WordNet
deploy

  1. v. place troops or weapons in battle formation

  2. to distribute systematically or strategically; "The U.S. deploys its weapons in the Middle East"

Usage examples of "deploy".

All thirty-eight members of the ISEG had been deployed to the British base area in Oman, and the MD-80 aircraft that Robertson had ordered had been repainted as an Aer Lingus cargo plane on charter to the UN.

Rhodes, the geraniums deployed, in typical Alsatian style, in a ring round the bow-windows.

GeV, requires an energy input of about 7,000 joules and a persistent circulating current of 250 amps, if a 20 km deployed superconducting wire coil is used.

His squadrons of warhead-delivery ships scattered from the launching bays, swooped beneath the rings, and dropped airburst bombs into the atmosphere, hitting strategic substations first and then deploying secondary atomics to spread the destruction across the landscape below.

The kindjals deployed their atomics, tossing them in a broad spread against the dense conglomeration of targets the thinking machines had arranged to block the Army of Humanity.

Roosevelt felt like seeing for himself how the barrels were deployed, everything could still cave in, like a trench with a mine touched off below it.

Qin warships were deployed near their battleships, protecting the mining station.

When it was deployed, it would reach clear around the Beanstalk, missing all the drive train and repair station fittings, and hang in close to the out-bound buckets.

The PT sailors told us that Biak was the major staging point for squadrons of boats deploying north to the Philippines and east to the Marianas.

From the middle of March, 1942, to the end of April only 6 to 8 boats were deployed.

Out the door, Marietta, who has brought in carryout, has skillfully deployed a napkin between her pizza slice and her TV.

Zeth chafed as Dan deployed the people of Fort Freedom, the channels and Companions at the rear of the line of march.

The wing had deployed to its Colocated Operating Base at RAF Stonewood in the United Kingdom as part of a Reforger exercise the United States mounted every September.

The Japanese had by now deployed at least three full divisions against us, and an assembly of shipping at Singora indicated the possible arrival of another.

Only good at short range, and you rapidly came to a falloff point where the amount of explosives needed might as well be deployed some other way.