deploy
/dɪˈplɔɪ/
deploy verb: to prepare and arrange (originally military unit or units, i.e., to array troops) for use.
Verb
deploy (third-person singular simple present deploys, present participle deploying, simple past and past participle deployed)
- To prepare and arrange (originally military unit or units, i.e., to array troops) for use.
- "Deploy two units of infantry along the enemy's flank," the general ordered.
- deploy some lifeguards on the beach
- Synonyms:
- field
- To unfold, open, or otherwise become ready for use.
- He waited tensely for his parachute to deploy.
- deploy the airbag
- 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.
Noun
deploy (plural deploys)
- Deployment.
- Rolling back the bad deploy will usually solve the immediate production problem, but your team isn't done yet.2021, James Shore, Shane Warden, The Art of Agile Development, page 433
- Deployment.
deploy meaning in Tamil, Marathi, Urdu and Bengali
deploy in Tamil
- அமர்த்து, அணிவகுத்து நிறுத்து பரவலமர்த்துகை, பரப்பி அமை, விரிவுறுத்து
deploy in Marathi
- तैनात करणे
deploy in Urdu
- to deploy, post, appoint
- لگانا lagānā
deploy in Bengali
- মোতায়েন করা, কাজে লাগানো, সৈন্য, সম্পদকে কার্যকরভাবে বিন্যস্ত করা
More languagesFewer languages
- deploy in Telugu
- మోహరించడానికి
- deploy in Malayalam
- വിന്യസിക്കുക, അണിനിരത്തുക, വ്യുഹം ചമയ്ക്കുക, യഥാസ്ഥാനങ്ങളിലേക്ക് അയയ്ക്കുക
- deploy in Kannada
- ಸೈನ್ಯವ್ಯೂಹ ರಚನೆ ಮಾಡು, ನಿಯೋಗಿಸು, ವ್ಯಾಪಕವಾಗಿಸು, ಚದರಿನಿಲ್ಲು
- deploy in Punjabi
- ਤਾਇਨਾਤੀ ਕਰਨ ਲਈ
- deploy in Arabic
- عَبَّأَ ʕabbaʔa, نَشَرَ našara
Examples of deploy in a sentence
- Teachers can deploy a wide range of resources in their classrooms.
- The airbag will deploy on collision.
- The carriage, which was at full gallop, stopped suddenly; the guards deployed round, and Mademoiselle alighted.1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XXV, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume I, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry...
- EMR will deploy 18 of the 21 '360s' in daily service, operating them in 12-car formations at peak times.2019 October, Tony Miles, Philip Sherratt, “EMR kicks off new era”, in Modern Railways, page 53:
Synonyms of deploy
Forms of deploy
| Verb | |
|---|---|
| third-person singular present | deploys |
| present participle | deploying |
| past participle | deployed |
| past | deployed |
| Noun | |
| plural | deploys |
Origin of deploy
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”). Compare Middle English desployen, dysployen (“to unfold, display”). Doublet of display.
Words formed from deploy
Words that rhyme with deploy
48 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- JOI
- joy
- alloy
- Amoy
- cloy
- convoy
- goy
- oi
- overjoy
- ploy
- travois
- ahoy
- annoy
- catboy
- Choi
- foxboy
- foy
- Hanoi
- hoi polloi
- kathoey
- poi
- Saint Croix
- soy
- Sukhoi
- accoy
- bok choy
- cocky's joy
- diaperboy
- doy
- Floy
- hoi
- hoo, boy
- hoy
- killjoy
- Kilroy
- koi
- loy
- man and boy
- noy
- oe
- oy
- pick-me boy
- ploye
- po' boy
- puppyboy
- Savoie
- stroy
- sugoi
Questions about deploy
- What does deploy mean?
- Deploy means to prepare and arrange (originally military unit or units, i.e., to array troops) for use.
- What is deploy in Tamil?
- Deploy in Tamil is அமர்த்து, அணிவகுத்து நிறுத்து பரவலமர்த்துகை, பரப்பி அமை. See Deploy meaning in Tamil.
- How do you use deploy in a sentence?
- Teachers can deploy a wide range of resources in their classrooms.
- What part of speech is deploy?
- Deploy can be a verb or a noun.
- How do you pronounce deploy?
- Deploy is pronounced /dɪˈplɔɪ/.
- What is the past tense of deploy?
- The past tense of deploy is deployed.
Words near deploy in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: deploy (page history and authors); deploy (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); deploy (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); لگانا (Urdu) (page history and authors); Deploy (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); deploy (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); deploy (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); deploy (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); deploy (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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