deploy

English

Etymology

(deprecated template usage) 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”). Doublet of display.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dɪˈplɔɪ/

Verb

deploy (third-person singular simple present deploys, present participle deploying, simple past and past participle deployed)

1. (transitive, ergative) To prepare and arrange (usually military unit or units) for use.

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

   • 2019 October, Tony Miles and Philip Sherratt, “EMR kicks off new era”, in Modern Railways, page 53:

     EMR will deploy 18 of the 21 '360s' in daily service, operating them in 12-car formations at peak times.

2. (transitive, intransitive) To unfold, open, or otherwise become ready for use.

   He waited tensely for his parachute to deploy.

   • 2012, John Branch, “Snow Fall : The Avalanche at Tunnel Creek”, in New York Time‎^[1]:

     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. (computing) 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.

Related terms

• deployment
• redeploy

Translations

to prepare and arrange (usually military unit or units) for use

• Bulgarian: разгръщам (bg) (razgrǎštam)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 部署 (zh) (bùshǔ)

• Czech: nasadit
• Finnish: (troops) sijoittaa (fi), lähettää (fi)
• German: aufstellen (de), formieren (de), aufmarschieren lassen, stationieren (de), in Stellung bringen
• Italian: dispiegare (it), collocare (it)
• Japanese: 配置する (ja) (haichi suru)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Korean: 배치하다 (ko) (baechihada)
• Romanian: desfășura (ro)
• Russian: развёртывать (ru) impf (razvjórtyvatʹ), разверну́ть (ru) pf (razvernútʹ), размеща́ть (ru) impf (razmeščátʹ), размести́ть (ru) pf (razmestítʹ)
• Serbo-Croatian: razviti (sh), zauzeti položaj
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: forměrowaś impf

• Spanish: desplegar (es)
• Swedish: gruppera (sv)

to unfold, open, or otherwise become ready for use

• Bulgarian: разгръщам се (razgrǎštam se)
• Finnish: avautua (fi), valmistella (fi)
• German: öffnen (de), entfalten (de)
• Japanese: ひらく (ja)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Portuguese: disponibilizar (pt)
• Romanian: desface (ro), desfășura (ro)
• Russian: раскрыва́ться (ru) impf (raskryvátʹsja), раскры́ться (ru) pf (raskrýtʹsja) (intransitive)

to install, test and implement a computer system or application

• Dutch: uitrollen (nl)
• Finnish: ottaa käyttöön
• Portuguese: lançar (pt)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Romanian: instala (ro)
• Russian: устана́вливать (ru) impf (ustanávlivatʹ), установи́ть (ru) pf (ustanovítʹ)

Noun

deploy (plural deploys)

1. (military, dated) deployment

Further reading

• “deploy”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• “deploy”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
• “deploy”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Anagrams

• ployed, podley, polyed