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deployment

UK/dɪˈplɔɪmənt/US/dɪˈplɔɪmənt/
nounC1Common in everyday speech and writing · #7,485 of 15,258leans written

Other forms: deployments

Deployment is sending people or equipment where they are needed. A six-month deployment, rapid deployment, the deployment of troops.

In the forces a deployment is a tour away from home, and the length of it is a standing subject of family strain and policy. In software, deployment is putting new code into live use, and doing it in small frequent steps is safer than in big rare ones.

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Definitions of deployment

  1. 1noundeploymentSending people or equipment where they are needed.C1

    “The deployment of extra police to the city centre calmed the situation.”

deployment is a sending.

Where it comes from

French deploiement comes from deployer, to unfold, from Latin displicare — dis, apart, plus plicare, to fold. Display is the same word.

  1. French

    déploiement

  2. English, today

    deployment

From French déploiement. Also de + ployment.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

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deployment in the wild

  • Ronald Reagan made five deployments to the Pacific and Middle East between 2006 and 2011 while based at Naval Air Station North Island.

    USS Ronald Reagan

  • Quality function deployment (QFD) is a method developed in Japan beginning in 1966 to help transform the voice of the customer into engineering characteristics for a product.

    Quality function deployment

  • Software deployment is all of the activities that make a software system available for use.

    Software deployment

  • COMPTUEX, or Composite Training Unit Exercise, is a rehearsal each US Navy Carrier Strike Group performs before departing for deployment.

    Composite Training Unit Exercise

  • COMPTUEX is normally conducted during a two to three week period, six to eight weeks before deployment.

    Composite Training Unit Exercise

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From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.