deploy
[dih-ploi]
- Military. to spread out (troops) so as to form an extended front or line.
- to arrange in a position of readiness, or to move strategically or appropriately: to deploy a battery of new missiles.
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- to spread out strategically or in an extended front or line.
- to come into a position ready for use: the plane can't land unless the landing gear deploys.
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Origin of deploy
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Contemporary Examples
The airline industry objects that sometimes these deployable recorders can pop out without cause, spreading needless alarm.
deploy
- to adopt or cause to adopt a battle formation, esp from a narrow front formation
- (tr) to redistribute (forces) to or within a given area
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Word Origin
C18: from French déployer, from Latin displicāre to unfold; see display
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Word Origin and History for deployable
deploy
v.
1786 as a military word, from French déployer "unroll, unfold," from Old French desploiier "unfold," from Latin displicare "unfold, scatter," from dis- (see dis-) + plicare "to fold" see ply (v.1)). "In its AFr. form regularly adopted in ME as desplay" [OED]. Related: Deployed; deploying.
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