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[dih-ploi]
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verb (used with object)

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.

verb (used without object)

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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RELATED WORDS

mobile, ambulatory, portable, motile, adaptable, adjustable, loose, moving, removable, separable, transferable, unattached, unsteady, conveyable, detachable, liftable, portative, shiftable, turnable, unstationary

Nearby words

  1. depletion region,
  2. depletory,
  3. deplorable,
  4. deploration,
  5. deplore,
  6. deployment,
  7. deplumation,
  8. deplume,
  9. depo-provera,
  10. depolarization

Origin of deploy

1470–80; < French déployer, equivalent to dé- dis-1 + ployer to fold; see ploy
Related formsde·ploy·a·ble, adjectivede·ploy·a·bil·i·ty, nounde·ploy·ment, nouncoun·ter·de·ploy·ment, noun
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British Dictionary definitions for deployable

deploy

verb mainly military

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
Derived Formsdeployment, noun

Word Origin for deploy

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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