DEPLOY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does deploy mean? 

• DEPLOY (verb)
  The verb DEPLOY has 2 senses:

1. place troops or weapons in battle formation

2. to distribute systematically or strategically

  Familiarity information: DEPLOY used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DEPLOY (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they deploy    ... he / she / it deploys   
Past simple: deployed   
Past participle: deployed   
-ing form: deploying   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Place troops or weapons in battle formation

Classified under:

Verbs of fighting, athletic activities

Hypernyms (to "deploy" is one way to...):

position (cause to be in an appropriate place, state, or relation)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "deploy"):

play (put (a card or piece) into play during a game, or act strategically as if in a card game)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

deployment (the distribution of forces in preparation for battle or work)

Sense 2

Meaning:

To distribute systematically or strategically

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Context example:

The U.S. deploys its weapons in the Middle East

Hypernyms (to "deploy" is one way to...):

distribute; spread (distribute or disperse widely)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "deploy"):

redeploy (deploy anew)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody

Derivation:

deployment (the distribution of forces in preparation for battle or work)

 Context examples 

The team subsequently deployed a camera, providing footage of the name plaque on the side of the vessel with the name "Grayback" still legible.

(Lost 52 Project announces discovery of wrecked sub near Okinawa, Wikinews)

One of its first tasks is to deploy its two decagonal solar arrays, which will provide power.

(NASA InSight Lander Arrives on Martian Surface, NASA)

The findings provide a baseline to compare the value of deploying natural enemies of crop pests with insecticide use.

(Study estimates true value of ladybird as biocontrol, SciDev.Net)

Activities, including research and development efforts, leading to new or improved manufacturing processes, equipment, or techniques, as well as related activities to manage and deploy manufacturing technologies.

(Advanced Manufacturing Technology, NCI Thesaurus)

A globally unique identifier deployed by systems that are compatible with the caGrid.

(caBIG Identifier, NCI Thesaurus)

Issue associated with failure of device to discharge its load (e.g. surgical stapler failed to partially or completely deploy its staples).

(Misfire Medical Device Problem, Food and Drug Administration)

A measure of procedural success during a percutaneous coronary intervention when a guidewire can be deployed across a coronary artery lesion.

(Guidewire Across Lesion, NCI Thesaurus/ACC)

Issue associated with users experiencing difficulty or uneasiness to deploy device and/or device components to a specified location.

(Deployment Difficulty Medical Device Problem, Food and Drug Administration)

He added other more expensive insecticides can then be deployed to treat the bed nets.

(Malaria-carrying Mosquitoes Becoming Resistant to Bed Nets in Southern Africa, VOA)

To obtain comprehensive geomorphic, sedimentological, biological and dating information, scientists deployed underwater sonar to map the sea floor and extracted fossil reef cores at 16 locations.

(Major study reveals Great Barrier Reef’s 30,000-year fight for survival, University of Granada)