Definition of "deploy" []

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

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• "One that we're getting ready to deploy is data-loss prevention technologies."
• "Guided trips usually travel with at least two rafts and sometimes even deploy a kayaker to lead the way through rapids; if the first raft gets into trouble, the ones behind can steer around the danger and be in position for a rescue."
• "Now, the proliferation of the numbers of them and when they deploy, that is subject to this dynamic threat that we see whenever an increase in threat."