deploy

== English == === Etymology === Borrowed from French déployer (“to unroll, unfold”), from Old French desploiier, itself from des- + ploiier, or possibly from Late Latin displicāre (“to unfold, display”), from Latin dis- (“apart”) + plicare (“to fold”). Compare Middle English desployen, dysployen (“to unfold, display”). Doublet of display. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /dɪˈplɔɪ/ Rhymes: -ɔɪ === Verb === deploy (third-person singular simple present deploys, present participle deploying, simple past and past participle deployed) (transitive, ergative) To prepare and arrange (originally military unit or units, i.e., to array troops) for use. (transitive, intransitive) To unfold, open, or otherwise become ready for use. (computing) To install, test and implement a computer system or application. ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Related terms ==== deployment redeploy ==== Descendants ==== → German: deployen ==== Translations ==== === Noun === deploy (plural deploys) (software engineering) Deployment. (military, dated) Deployment. === Further reading === “deploy”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC. William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin Eli Smith, editors (1895–1910), “deploy”, in The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia: […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC. “deploy”, in OneLook Dictionary Search. === Anagrams === ployed, podley, polyed