deploy
deploy
verb (deploys, deployed, deployed, deploying)
/dɪˈplɔɪ/
1 deploy somebody/something to move soldiers or weapons into a position where they are ready for military action
2 000 troops were deployed in the area.
At least 5 000 missiles were deployed along the border.
Tanks were deployed effectively during the long campaign.
TOPICS War and conflictC1
Collocations
adverb
effectively
successfully
widely
preposition
against
2 deploy something (formal) to use something effectively
to deploy arguments/resources
She rejected the arguments that had been deployed against her.
Word Origin
late 18th cent.: from French déployer, from Latin displicare and late Latin deplicare ‘unfold or explain’, from dis-, de- ‘un-’ + plicare ‘to fold’. Compare with display.