redeploy
Americanverb (used with object)
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redeploys,
present (3rd person singular)
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redeployed,
past participle, past
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redeploying
present participle
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to transfer (a unit, a person, supplies, etc.) from one theater of operations to another.
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to move or allocate to a different position, use, function, or the like; reassign.
verb (used without object)
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redeploys,
present (3rd person singular)
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redeployed,
past participle, past
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redeploying
present participle
verb
Other Word Forms
Derived Forms
Inflected Forms
Participles
Conjugated Forms
Present
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redeploysimple
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redeployssimple
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have redeployedperfect
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has redeployedperfect
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am redeployingprogressive
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are redeployingprogressive
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is redeployingprogressive
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have been redeployingperfect progressive
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has been redeployingperfect progressive
Past
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redeployedsimple
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had redeployedperfect
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was redeployingprogressive
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were redeployingprogressive
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had been redeployingperfect progressive
Future
Etymology
Origin of redeploy
Explanation
To redeploy is to send out again or reassign to a new location, the way an army at war redeploys soldiers to places where there's new fighting. A busy catering company might redeploy workers to a wedding reception that needs extra servers, and an aid agency could decide to redeploy additional doctors and nurses to a country that's suffered from earthquakes. To deploy is to move people, especially military troops. Add the "again" prefix, re-, and you're moving those troops to a new location or a new task.
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The action that Trump took was to redeploy an aircraft carrier, the USS George Washington, from Japan to the Middle East, where it will replace the USS Abraham Lincoln.
From Slate ● Aug. 17, 2026
Instead, the surviving spouse can redeploy the funds at will.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 30, 2026
For those Barron’s readers who invested in S&P Global before the post-publication selloff, it is a personal decision—as all investment decisions are—whether to cut their losses and redeploy remaining capital elsewhere.
From Barron's ● Jun. 10, 2026
If people lose their jobs as a result, “I get to redeploy them, to do something else of more value,” Krishna said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 5, 2026
Because the harsh conditions in Iraq are wearing out equipment more quickly than anticipated, many units do not have fully functional equipment for training when they redeploy to the United States.
From The Iraq Study Group Report by Iraq Study Group (U.S.)
TD Cowen analyst David Kwan says move reaffirms “a significant re-rating as it sells its U.S. businesses and redeploys the capital into the very attractive Canadian market.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 3, 2026
One piece recycles cleaning mops, another redeploys a large metal tumbler from the back of a concrete truck.
From New York Times ● Dec. 5, 2023
The real Werner von Braun shows up, too, playing Nazi generals “as skillfully as he played his cello,” a knack the rocketry pioneer nimbly redeploys at the end of the novel.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 24, 2020
Having used Tilda Swinton in that movie, as the suavest of bloodsuckers, he redeploys her here as a Buddha-worshipping, sword-swiping mortician named Zelda Winston.
From The New Yorker ● Jun. 14, 2019
Like them, life stores and redeploys energy in series of connected actions.
From Salon ● Jun. 2, 2013
The UN experts said former Agemira personnel were redeployed to Kisangani, an eastern provincial capital a few hundred miles from the front line.
From Barron's ● Oct. 16, 2026
Moynihan said the company had redeployed some staff to fulfill compliance obligations, meaning it won't mean additional costs in the future for these functions.
From Barron's ● Oct. 14, 2026
Another 139 officers are being redeployed into local teams to focus on a "prevention and problem solving approach".
From BBC ● Sep. 6, 2026
Well-trained and talented people can be redeployed, Dimon said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 18, 2026
More recently, many of these troops have been redeployed back to Burundi to deal with periodic upsurges in rebel activity.
From The 2003 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency
McDonnell said the department was “looking for opportunities” to leverage technology such as AI to address the backlog, and suggested the possibility of redeploying civilian staff to the unit.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 29, 2026
PepsiCo anticipates retraining and redeploying some drivers to other types of work, including managing the new equipment, synchronizing the movement of people who go to the stores, or handling the unloading themselves.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 8, 2026
"The operating reality has changed, and we are redeploying capital into higher-return growth opportunities," Mr Farley added, pointing to trucks, vans, hybrid vehicles and the company's energy storage business.
From BBC ● Dec. 15, 2025
Clearly, investors have been moving money out of highflying AI-related stocks and redeploying cash to basic, analog businesses.
From MarketWatch ● Dec. 9, 2025
The DWP said it was redeploying staff to help to sick and disabled people into work, and was modernising job centres with new digital tools.
From BBC ● Mar. 30, 2025
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