redeploy

verb

re·​de·​ploy ˌrē-di-ˈplȯi How to pronounce redeploy (audio)
redeployed; redeploying; redeploys

transitive verb

: to transfer from one area or activity to another

intransitive verb

: to relocate personnel or equipment
redeployment noun

Examples of redeploy in a Sentence

The soldiers were redeployed to the country's capital. Most units will redeploy to their home bases. They redeployed their assets into mutual funds.
Recent Examples on the Web In reaction to North Korea’s earlier balloon campaign, South Korea’s military on June 9 redeployed gigantic loudspeakers along the border for the first time in six years and resumed anti-North Korean propaganda broadcasts. Hyung-Jin Kim, The Christian Science Monitor, 24 June 2024 The difference was that Israeli settlers and soldiers were now redeployed around Gaza to control it from the outside. Tariq Kenney-Shawa, Washington Post, 17 June 2024 As a result, emergency responders, government officials, and nongovernmental aid groups have less time to respond, recover, and redeploy. Karen Florini, Foreign Affairs, 5 June 2024 Biden reversed that move, redeploying troops to the country, but has conducted far fewer strikes, just 20 last year and seven so far this year. Joshua Keating, Vox, 1 June 2024 See all Example Sentences for redeploy 

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Word History

First Known Use

1945, in the meaning defined at transitive sense

Time Traveler
The first known use of redeploy was in 1945

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“Redeploy.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/redeploy. Accessed 2 Jul. 2024.

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