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DEPLOYMENT
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Dictionary entry overview: What does deployment mean?
• DEPLOYMENT (noun)
The noun DEPLOYMENT has 1 sense:
1. the distribution of forces in preparation for battle or work
Familiarity information: DEPLOYMENT used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The distribution of forces in preparation for battle or work
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("deployment" is a kind of...):
preparation; readying (the activity of putting or setting in order in advance of some act or purpose)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "deployment"):
redeployment; redisposition (the withdrawal and redistribution of forces in an attempt to use them more effectively)
Derivation:
deploy (place troops or weapons in battle formation)
deploy (to distribute systematically or strategically)
Context examples
While several methods of ridding water of arsenic have been devised, cost has been a determining factor in actual deployment.
(Watermelon rind a cheap filter for arsenic in groundwater, SciDev.Net)
Issue associated with any deviations from specifications relating to device operations (e.g. deployment, connection, electrical, computer software, infusion/flow, output, protective-measure, and incompatibility issues).
(Medical Device Operational Issue, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)
The 29-day deployment ended May 6 when the aircraft returned to its base in Palmdale, California, after 19 flights totaling 97 hours in the air.
(NASA airborne research focuses on Andean volcanoes, NASA)
A therapeutic procedure involving the injection or deployment of blocking agents in the hepatic artery to treat tumors.
(Hepatic Artery Embolization, NCI Thesaurus)
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