deploy

Pronunciation

• IPA ^(key): /dɪˈplɔɪ/

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Verb

Plain form deploy

Third-person singular deploys

Past tense deployed

Past participle deployed

Present participle deploying

1. (transitive) If a country deploy troops, they prepare and arrange them for military action.

   Deploy two units of infantry along the enemy's flank," the general ordered.

2. (transitive & intransitive) If you deploy something, you open it or otherwise make it ready for use.

   He waited tensely for his parachute to deploy.