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de·ploy (dĭ-ploí)

[French déployer, from Old French despleier, from Latin displicāre, to scatter, dis-, dis-, + plicāre, to fold.]

verb: -ployed, -ploy·ing, -ploys. 

transitive verb 

    1. To position (troops) in readiness for combat, as along a front or line.
    2. To bring (forces or material) into action.
    3. To base (a weapons system) in the field.
  2. To distribute (persons or forces) systematically or strategically.
  3. 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)

intransitive verb 

To be or become deployed.

derivatives

de·ploýa·biĺi·ty
noun
de·ploýa·ble
adjective
de·ploýer
noun
de·ploýment
noun