deployment

American  

[dih-ploi-muhnt] / dɪˈplɔɪ mənt /

noun

• deployments
  plural

1. the act of moving something or someone into a strategic position or a position of readiness, or the condition of being in such a position.

   Delays in the deployment of armored vehicles and body armor can cost lives on the front lines.

   Our team is highly experienced in the design, development, and deployment of customized IT solutions for healthcare facilities.

2. the state of being assigned for duty away from home, especially for military purposes.

   Encouragement and support are essential to help returning veterans handle the long-term impacts of deployment and reintegration into a nonmilitary daily routine.

   Community health workers on deployment are assisting in disaster recovery.

3. a period of time during which a person or group is assigned for duty away from home, especially for military purposes.

   She is a helicopter pilot on her second deployment to Afghanistan.

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Other Word Forms

Derived Forms

• counterdeployment
  noun

Inflected Forms

Nouns

• deployments
  plural

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Etymology

Origin of deployment

First recorded in 1775–85; deploy ( def. ) + -ment ( def. )

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Explanation

Deployment is a word, often used by the military, for sending troops into duty. A soldier could be part of a deployment to the Middle East. Deployment refers to assigning people to serve in various locations, especially soldiers and other military personnel. A deployment may include soldiers, as well as equipment and generals. Deployments might be part of a war or a peaceful mission. Also, non-military organizations use this word too: they might speak of a deployment of workers to a new office. When you see the word deployment, you know people are being sent somewhere for a specific mission.

Example Sentences

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That means asking harder questions about what each deployment costs and what it delivers and whether any given task should be automated.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 2, 2026

The troops are not operating under a UN framework and the scale of the deployment has raised concerns that their presence could add havoc to efforts to rein in the gangs.

From Barron's ● Oct. 30, 2026

The "robust deployment" was communicated by El Salvador President Nayib Bukele to the Prime Minister of Haiti Alix Didier Fils-Aime earlier this week, the foreign ministry of El Salvador said in a statement on Wednesday.

From BBC ● Oct. 29, 2026

The next step is for Amazon to show how widely it can reproduce the improvements, and what deployment costs.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 28, 2026

Local police acknowledged that no significant level of violence was associated with crack in Seattle and that other drugs were causing more hospitalizations, but steadfastly maintained that their deployment decisions were nondiscriminatory.

From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander

Sullivan, 61, only retired from the US Marines as recently as 2024, after a 30-year career that included deployments in to Afghanistan and the Middle East.

From BBC ● Nov. 2, 2026

“Sailors will do long deployments, but they need a port call,” Caudle said, adding that they need clarity about the length of their deployments.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026

With both Ethiopia and Eritrea reinforcing troop deployments along their border, the international community has expressed mounting concern about the risk of a new war.

From Barron's ● Oct. 28, 2026

Naji noted that the deployments with Anthropic are already counted in Broadcom’s expected shipments for next year, and only make up about half of what the AI startup will need in 2027.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 27, 2026

And, amid these deployments, Lefty Stephanides, carrying two corsages, stepped out the front door of his house and began walking to the house where Victoria Pappas lived.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides

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