v., -ployed, -ploy·ing, -ploys. v.tr.
- To position (troops) in readiness for combat, as along a front or line.
- To bring (forces or material) into action.
- To base (a weapons system) in the field.
- To distribute (persons or forces) systematically or strategically.
- To put into use or action: “Samuel Beckett's friends suspected that he was a genius, yet no one knew . . . how his abilities would be deployed” (Richard Ellmann).
To be or become deployed.
[French déployer, from Old French despleier, from Latin displicāre, to scatter : dis-, dis- + plicāre, to fold.]
deployability de·ploy'a·bil'i·ty n.deployable de·ploy'a·ble adj.
deployer de·ploy'er n.
deployment de·ploy'ment n.



