deploy

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

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

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. Milit., to expand; display; extend in a line of small depth, as a division or a battalion which has been previously formed in one or more columns.
2. Milit., to open out; extend; move so as to form a more extended front or line: as, the regiment deployed to the right.
3. n. Milit., the expansion or opening out of a body of troops previously compacted into a column, so as to present a more extended front.
4. To spread out, as the lower end of a valley glacier which extends out on a plain.

Wiktionary

1. v. transitive To prepare and arrange (usually military unit or units) for use.
2. v. intransitive To unfold, open, or otherwise become ready for use.
3. v. computing to install, test and implement a computer system or application.
4. n. military, dated deployment

GNU Webster's 1913

1. v. (Mil.) To open out; to unfold; to spread out (a body of troops) in such a way that they shall display a wider front and less depth; -- the reverse of ploy.
2. v. To place (people or other resources) into a position so as to be ready to for action or use.
3. n. (Mil.) The act of deploying; a spreading out of a body of men in order to extend their front.

WordNet 3.0

1. v. to distribute systematically or strategically
2. v. place troops or weapons in battle formation