deployment
Americannoun
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the act of moving something or someone into a strategic position or a position of readiness, or the condition of being in such a position.
Delays in the deployment of armored vehicles and body armor can cost lives on the front lines.
Our team is highly experienced in the design, development, and deployment of customized IT solutions for healthcare facilities.
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the state of being assigned for duty away from home, especially for military purposes.
Encouragement and support are essential to help returning veterans handle the long-term impacts of deployment and reintegration into a nonmilitary daily routine.
Community health workers on deployment are assisting in disaster recovery.
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a period of time during which a person or group is assigned for duty away from home, especially for military purposes.
She is a helicopter pilot on her second deployment to Afghanistan.
Other Word Forms
- counterdeployment noun
Etymology
Origin of deployment
First recorded in 1775–85; deploy ( def. ) + -ment ( def. )
Example Sentences
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Meanwhile, the surgeon general oversees the more than 6,000-member Public Health Service Commissioned Corps—a uniformed service whose deployment is slower and more costly than civilian alternatives.
In Baghdad, hundreds of Iraqis, many dressed in black, attempted to storm the compound housing the American embassy on Sunday despite a heavy security deployment.
From Barron's
This last sentence is a reference to discussions over energy deployment and recovery.
From BBC
Smoke was rising over Tehran's Pasteur district, site of the home of Khamenei, and there was a huge security deployment in the capital.
From Barron's
In the note seen by the BBC, Altman said any OpenAI contracts for defence would also reject uses that were "unlawful or unsuited to cloud deployments, such as domestic surveillance and autonomous offensive weapons".
From BBC
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