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de⋅ploy

  [di-ploi]
Use deploy in a Sentence
–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.
Origin:
1470–80; < F déployer, equiv. to dé- dis- 1 + ployer to fold; see ploy

Related forms:
de⋅ploy⋅a⋅ble, adjective
de⋅ploy⋅a⋅bil⋅i⋅ty, noun
de⋅ploy⋅ment, noun
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de·ploy   (dĭ-ploi')   
v.   de·ployed, de·ploy·ing, de·ploys

v.   tr.
    1. To position (troops) in readiness for combat, as along a front or line.
    2. To bring (forces or material) into action.
    3. To base (a weapons system) in the field.
  2. To distribute (persons or forces) systematically or strategically.
  3. 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).
v.   intr.
To be or become deployed.

[French déployer, from Old French despleier, from Latin displicāre, to scatter : dis-, dis- + plicāre, to fold; see plek- in Indo-European roots.]
de·ploy'a·bil'i·ty n., de·ploy'a·ble adj., de·ploy'er n., de·ploy'ment n.
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Deploy

De*ploy"\, v. t. & i. [imp. & p. p. Deployed; p. pr. & vb. n. Deploying.] [F. d['e]ployer; pref. d['e]? = d['e]s (L. dis) + ployer, equiv. to plier to fold, fr. L. plicare. See Ply, and cf. Display.] (Mil.) 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; as, to deploy a column of troops into line of battle.

Deploy

De*ploy"\, Deployment \De*ploy"ment\, n. (Mil.) The act of deploying; a spreading out of a body of men in order to extend their front. ---Wilhelm.

Deployments . . . which cause the soldier to turn his back to the enemy are not suited to war.H.L. --Scott.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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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.)).
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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