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redeploy

American  
[ree-di-ploi] / ˌri dɪˈplɔɪ /

verb (used with object)

  1. to transfer (a unit, a person, supplies, etc.) from one theater of operations to another.

  2. to move or allocate to a different position, use, function, or the like; reassign.


verb (used without object)

  1. to execute a redeployment.

redeploy British  
/ ˌriːdɪˈplɔɪ /

verb

  1. to assign new positions or tasks to (labour, troops, etc)

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Other Word Forms

  • redeployment noun

Etymology

Origin of redeploy

First recorded in 1940–45; re- + deploy

Example Sentences

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“AI is now a general intelligence that improves at the very tasks humans would redeploy to. Displaced coders cannot simply move to ‘AI management’ because AI is already capable of that,” says the Citrini report.

From MarketWatch

The Pentagon last week redeployed the Navy’s most advanced aircraft carrier, the USS Gerald R. Ford, from the Caribbean and sent it toward the Middle East.

From The Wall Street Journal

The lost jobs and investments rendered unprofitable by new technology free up labor and capital that can be redeployed to produce new and higher-valued goods and services.

From The Wall Street Journal

It would mean that schools who are in financial deficit could find some of their teachers redeployed to work in another school in the surrounding area if it was deemed necessary.

From BBC

The Fed’s “largesse can be redeployed in the form of lower interest rates to support households and small and medium-size businesses.”

From The Wall Street Journal