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 Whether redeploying existing staff or making new hires, skilled leaders are needed to drive the practice and policy changes above, and deploy effective communications strategies to help internal stakeholders navigate the change. Laura Thompson, Forbes, 22 Feb. 2024 Multiple interviews indicated that the main aim in treating the wounded was to redeploy them to the battlefront quickly. Milana Mazaeva, New York Times, 15 Feb. 2024 But with the military family being redeployed to Alabama, that option is now shrouded with uncertainty following a recent state Supreme Court ruling, Eshelman told CNN’s Kaitlan Collins on Wednesday. Nouran Salahieh, CNN, 22 Feb. 2024 Why not redeploy the cash used for the buyback into the business? Shivaram Rajgopal, Forbes, 14 Feb. 2024 And there’s so many cases throughout history where some companies fail, and those people and those assets could redeploy to doing other very interesting things. Fortune Editors, Fortune, 7 Feb. 2024 If anything, the announcements out of companies have been going the other way where the metaverse teams that were established two years ago or three years ago, have been either redeployed elsewhere in organizations or they’ve just been eliminated altogether. Georg Szalai, The Hollywood Reporter, 23 Dec. 2023 In recent years, they were redeployed to the West Bank to protect Jewish settlements and to counter new Palestinian militant groups. Loveday Morris, Washington Post, 27 Oct. 2023 First, as an easy starting point, the additional forces and platforms sent to the region since October 7 should be redeployed. Jennifer Kavanagh, Foreign Affairs, 24 Nov. 2023

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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 29 Mar. 2024.

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