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"Technology gives us the ability to rapidly deploy or re-deploy," comments Jerry Davies, a Farmers spokesperson.

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  1. transitive verb To position (troops) in readiness for combat, as along a front or line.
  2. transitive verb To bring (forces or material) into action.
  3. transitive verb To base (a weapons system) in the field.
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  • "Technology gives us the ability to rapidly deploy or re-deploy," comments Jerry Davies, a Farmers spokesperson. —  InsuranceTech - All Stories
  • Ektron provides a complete platform with all of the functionality necessary to create, deploy, and manage your Web site. —  CMS Report
  • That is, Exchange is something that a company's administrators and IT pros need to install, deploy, and manage. —  Paul Thurrott's SuperSite for Windows
  • So every time we deploy, the masters detect that, tell all their children to cleanly finish up what they're doing, and restart themselves to take advantage of the latest and greatest. —  the-inbetween.com
  • It has demonstrated its capability to mobilize, deploy, and sustain battalions in support of peacekeeping operations in the former Yugoslavia, Angola, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Liberia, and Sudan / Darfur.
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Etymologies (3)

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  1. French déployer, from Old French despleier, from Latin displicāre, to scatter : dis-, dis- + plicāre, to fold; see plek- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from French déployer, unroll, unfold, from Old French desployer, earlier despleier, displeier, later Middle English displayen, English display, which is thus a doublet of deploy: see display, and cf. deplication.
  2. from deploy, v.
 

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