deploy
//dɪˈplɔɪ//
Forms
- present (v1)
- deploy
- past (v2)
- deployed
- past participle (v3)
- deployed
- present participle
- deploying
- 3rd person singular
- deploys
- Plural
- deploys
Definitions
1.To prepare and arrange (originally military unit or units, i.e., to array troops) for use.
- Teachers can deploy a wide range of resources in their classrooms.
- "Deploy two units of infantry along the enemy's flank," the general ordered.
- EMR will deploy 18 of the 21 '360s' in daily service, operating them in 12-car formations at peak times.
2.To unfold, open, or otherwise become ready for use.
- The airbag will deploy on collision.
- He waited tensely for his parachute to deploy.
- At first she thought she would be embarrassed that she had deployed her air bag, that the other expert skiers she was with, more than a dozen of them, would have a good laugh at her panicked overreaction.
3.To install, test and implement a computer system or application.
- The process for the deployment scenario includes: building a master installation of the operating system, creating its image and deploying the image onto a destination computer.
1.Deployment.
- Rolling back the bad deploy will usually solve the immediate production problem, but your team isn't done yet.
Frequency
Overall
Rare· #4321
By learning goal
- Everyday conversation
- Rare
- General reading & writing
- Rare
- Academic
- Rare
- Literature
- Rare
Etymology
Borrowed from French déployer (“to unroll, unfold”), from Old French desploiier, itself from des- + ploiier, or possibly from Late Latin displicāre (“to unfold, display”), from Latin dis- (“apart”) + plicare (“to fold”).