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Deploy

//dɪˈplɔɪ// noun, verb

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Deployment.

    "Rolling back the bad deploy will usually solve the immediate production problem, but your team isn't done yet."

  2. 2
    Deployment. dated
Verb
  1. 1
    To prepare and arrange (originally military unit or units, i.e., to array troops) for use. ergative, transitive

    ""Deploy two units of infantry along the enemy's flank," the general ordered."

  2. 2
    to distribute systematically or strategically wordnet
  3. 3
    To unfold, open, or otherwise become ready for use. intransitive, transitive

    "He waited tensely for his parachute to deploy."

  4. 4
    To install, test and implement a computer system or application.

    "The process for the deployment scenario includes: building a master installation of the operating system, creating its image and deploying the image onto a destination computer."

Etymology

Etymology 1

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.

Etymology 2

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.

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