deployment

English

Etymology

From French déploiement. Also de- +‎ ployment.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dɪˈplɔɪmənt/

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

Noun

deployment (countable and uncountable, plural deployments)

1. An arrangement or classification of things.
2. An implementation, or putting into use, of something.
3. The distribution of military forces prior to battle.
   • 1861, H. L. Scott, Military Dictionary: Comprising Technical Definitions:

     Deployments […] which cause the soldier to turn his back to the enemy are not suited to war.

4. (parachuting) the start of something

Hyponyms

• continuous deployment
• software deployment
• subdeployment

 

Derived terms

• blue-green deployment
• counterdeployment
• deployment goggles
• maldeployment
• nondeployment
• ployment
• postdeployment
• predeployment
• predeployment
• redeployment

 

Related terms

• research and development

Translations

arrangement or classification of things

• Finnish: asettelu (fi)
• Russian: размеще́ние (ru) n (razmeščénije)

implementation, or putting into use, of something

• Estonian: juurutama
• Finnish: käyttöönotto (fi)
• French: déploiement (fr) m
• German: Auslieferung (de) f, Verteilung (de) f (software)
• Italian: implementazione (it), distribuzione (it), diffusione (it)
• Maori: whakahoranga
• Portuguese: destacamento (pt)
• Russian: внедре́ние (ru) n (vnedrénije)
• Spanish: implementación f
• Turkish: dağıtım (tr), teslimat (tr)

distribution of military forces prior to battle

• Arabic: نَشْر m (našr)
• Catalan: desplegament m
• Czech: nasazení (cs) n
• Finnish: joukkojen asettelu
• French: déploiement (fr) m
• German: Aufmarsch (de) m, Entsendung (de) f, Stationierung (de) f
• Italian: dispiego (it)
• Portuguese: mobilização (pt) f
• Russian: размеще́ние (ru) n (razmeščénije), развёртывание (ru) n (razvjórtyvanije)
• Spanish: despliegue (es) m
• Turkish: konuşlanma (tr), savaş düzeni alma

when used in the context of parachuting: the start of something

• Italian: apertura (it)

References

• deployment on Wikipedia.Wikipedia