deploy
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.
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| —vb | |
| 1. | to adopt or cause to adopt a battle formation, esp from a narrow front formation |
| 2. | (tr) to redistribute (forces) to or within a given area |
| [C18: from French déployer, from Latin displicāre to unfold; see | |
| de'ployment | |
| —n | |
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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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Example sentences
They are excellent weapons for nongovernmental predators to deploy against centers of government.
To compensate, controllers reprogrammed the parachute to deploy earlier.
Burned away, the heat shield will jettison and the parachute will deploy.
Rather, it is a complex, ever-changing strategy mammal brains deploy in order to cope with danger.
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