deploy

• POS: Verb (usu participle), Verb (transitive)
• HYPHEN: de=ploy

OXFORD DICTIONARY

deploy, v.
1 Mil. a tr. cause (troops) to spread out from a column into a line. b intr. (of troops) spread out in this way.
2 tr. bring (arguments, forces, etc.) into effective action.

Derivative

deployment n.

Etymology

F d{eacute}ployer f. L displicare (as DIS-, plicare fold) & LL deplicare explain

THESAURUS

deploy

aberrate, adduce, advance, allege, allocate, arrange, array, assign, branch, branch out, bring forward, bring on, bring to bear, clear for action, clear the decks, collocate, cool off, cure, disperse, dispose, divaricate, diverge, divide, dress, emplace, expand, extend, fan, fan out, fix, fix up, flare, form, get a fix, get ready, go away, go off, grade, harmonize, hierarchize, home in on, install, lay out, line up, localize, locate, make arrangements, make preparations, make ready, marshal, methodize, mobilize, navigate, normalize, offer, open, open up, order, organize, outspread, outstretch, overgrow, overrun, pacify, pin down, pinpoint, place, plan, plead, position, prearrange, prep, prepare, present, pretreat, process, produce, provide, put in place, put in shape, quiet, rally, ramify, rank, ready, ready up, regularize, regulate, routinize, separate, set up, settle preliminaries, situate, splay, spot, spraddle, sprangle, sprawl, spread, spread like wildfire, spread out, standardize, structure, systematize, tan, tranquilize, treat, triangulate, trim, try out, unfold, widen, zero in on

ROGET THESAURUS

deploy

Expansion

VB become larger &c (large), expand, widen, enlarge, extend, grow, increase, incrassate, swell, gather, fill out, deploy, take open order, dilate, stretch, distend, spread, mantle, wax, grow up, spring up, bud, bourgeon, shoot, sprout, germinate, put forth, vegetate, pullulate, open, burst forth, gain flesh, gather flesh, outgrow, spread like wildfire, overrun, be larger than, surpass, render larger &c (large), expand, spread, extend, aggrandize, distend, develop, amplify, spread out, widen, magnify, rarefy, inflate, puff, blow up, stuff, pad, cram, exaggerate, fatten.