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 Members were deployed and redeployed by party leadership. Xochitl Gonzalez, The Atlantic, 12 Aug. 2024 Washington sensed the moment and decided to lead his troops through two pivotal battles, the Battles of Trenton and Princeton, in the middle of winter shifting the momentum to favor the revolutionaries and forcing the British to the defensive and to redeploy resources. Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, TIME, 11 Aug. 2024 In an unusual step, U.S. officials also said a squadron of F-18 fighter jets from the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt were being redeployed to an undisclosed airbase in the Middle East. Tom Soufi Burridge, ABC News, 8 Aug. 2024 The incursion has undoubtedly rocked Russian defense and government officials, prompting the evacuation of thousands of citizens in Kursk and neighboring Belgorod, and Russian troops and resources to be redeployed to Kursk from areas of intense fighting in eastern Ukraine. Holly Ellyatt, CNBC, 13 Aug. 2024 See all Example Sentences for redeploy 

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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 13 Sep. 2024.

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