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Ployment

Ployment \Ploy"ment\, n. (Mil.) The act or movement of forming a column from a line of troops on some designated subdivision; -- the opposite of deployment.

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ployment

n. (context military English) The act or movement of forming a column from a line of troops on some designated subdivision; the opposite of deployment.

Usage examples of "ployment".

Like a good many worlds whose economy was too precarious to support full em ployment and too poor to pass the leisure barrier beyond which working became irrelevant for the individual, Cy clops made the worst of both worlds by maintaining a government labour force analogous to the pregalactic armed forces of Earthside nation-states.