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Past tense of deploy

regular verb

The past tense of deploy is deployed. The past participle is also deployed.

Forms of deploy

Base form (V1)deploy /dɪˈplɔɪ/
Past tense (V2)deployed
Past participle (V3)deployed
Present participledeploying
Third person singulardeploys

Deployed in a sentence

  • 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.2012 December 26, John Branch, “Snow Fall: The Avalanche at Tunnel Creek”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times...
  • The archvillain deployed his minions to simultaneously rob every bank in the city.From the entry minion
  • Troops were deployed in the violence-ridden province to re-establish law and order.From the entry violence-ridden
  • The Fourth Army suffered such losses that its remainders were merged into the Second Army, also deployed on the Western front.From the entry army
  • Clarence House has issued a joint statement with the Ministry of Defence, confirming that Prince Harry will be deployed to Iraq later this year.From the entry Clarence House

Meaning of deploy

  1. verb To prepare and arrange (originally military unit or units, i.e., to array troops) for use.
  2. verb To unfold, open, or otherwise become ready for use.
  3. verb To install, test and implement a computer system or application.

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Questions about the past tense of deploy

What is the past tense of deploy?
The past tense of deploy is deployed.
What is the past participle of deploy?
The past participle of deploy is deployed.
Is deploy a regular or irregular verb?
Deploy is a regular verb: its past tense adds -ed.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: deploy (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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