deploy

verb
🔊/dɪˈplɔɪ/
🔊/dɪˈplɔɪ/
Verb Forms
present simple I / you / we / they deploy
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he / she / it deploys
🔊/dɪˈplɔɪz/
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past simple deployed
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past participle deployed
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-ing form deploying
🔊/dɪˈplɔɪɪŋ/
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  1. deploy somebody/something to move soldiers or weapons into a position where they are ready for military action部署,调度(军队或武器)
    • 2 000 troops were deployed in the area.那个地区部署了 2 000 人的部队。
    • At least 5 000 missiles were deployed along the border.沿边境至少部署了 5 000 枚导弹。🔊🔊
    • Tanks were deployed effectively during the long campaign.在这场旷日持久的战役中坦克部队得到了有效的部署。
    Topics War and conflictc1
    Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadverb
    • effectively
    • successfully
    • widely
    preposition
    • against
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  2. deploy something (formal) to use something effectively有效地利用;调动
    • to deploy arguments/resources利用论据/资源
    • She rejected the arguments that had been deployed against her.她反驳了那些事先准备好用来批评她的论据。
    Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadverb
    • effectively
    • successfully
    • widely
    preposition
    • against
    See full entry
  3. Word Originlate 18th cent.: from French déployer, from Latin displicare and late Latin deplicare ‘unfold or explain’, from dis-, de- ‘un-’ + plicare ‘to fold’. Compare with display.