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.
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Aoun's election is likely to increase Western support for the Lebanese government and the Lebanese armed forces redeployed to southern Lebanon as part of the ceasefire deal with Israel. Barak Ravid, Axios, 9 Jan. 2025 Organizations must recognize that talent is an asset to be continuously nurtured, expanded and redeployed. Saurabh Jain, Forbes, 3 Jan. 2025 Ultimately, nuclear sharing is only slightly better than redeploying U.S. tactical nukes to South Korea and keeping them under U.S. control. Robert E. Kelly, Foreign Affairs, 30 Dec. 2024 The latter have either retreated or been redeployed to the Lebanese and Iraqi borders. Daniel R. Depetris, Newsweek, 6 Dec. 2024 See all Example Sentences for redeploy 

Word History

First Known Use

1945, in the meaning defined at transitive sense

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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 21 Jan. 2025.

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