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verb (used with object)
1.
Military. to spread out (troops) so as to form an extended front or line.
2.
to arrange in a position of readiness, or to move strategically or appropriately: to deploy a battery of new missiles.
verb (used without object)
3.
to spread out strategically or in an extended front or line.
4.
to come into a position ready for use: the plane can't land unless the landing gear deploys.
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Example Sentences
- Two boats will deploy side-scan sonar to survey broad areas of the seafloor.
- Many of these essays deploy riskily mellifluous language; they all ring personal, fervent and true.
- The next step is to deploy the practice nationally.
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Word Origin & History
deploy
1786 as a military word, from Fr. déployer "unroll, unfold," from O.Fr. desployer "unfold," from L. displicare "unfold, scatter," from dis- + plicare "to fold" see ply (v.)).
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