redeploy

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verb

re·​de·​ploy ˌrē-di-ˈplȯi 

redeployed; redeploying; redeploys

transitive verb

: to transfer from one area or activity to another

intransitive verb

: to relocate personnel or equipment

redeployment

ˌrē-di-ˈplȯi-mənt 

noun

redeployment

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noun

re·​de·​ploy·​ment ¦rē-di-¦plȯi-mənt 

: a relocation or reassignment of men or equipment

redeployment of United States forces from western Europe to the Far East

—E. L. Erickson

large-scale redeployment of labor

—Thomas Balogh

the Soviet Union's mammoth redeployment of industry into the Ural Mountains

—Newsweek

Examples of redeploy in a Sentence

Verb

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

Verb

Musk said SpaceX has redeployed some of its engineers — the same ones behind the company's wildly successful rocket-ship innovations — to solve the power and cooling bottlenecks. — Zev Fima, CNBC, 21 Oct. 2026

Powering on To try running the Adélie power plant anyway, the team redeployed it to a nearby natural vent where hydrothermal fluid was already flowing out at about 538° F (281° C). — Jeremy Hsu, ArsTechnica, 19 Oct. 2026

Before attacking Iran, the United States redeployed key military assets, including air and missile defenses, from the Indo-Pacific to the Middle East. — Andrea Kendall-Taylor, Foreign Affairs, 16 Oct. 2026

The deep state had appropriated their opposition to the Muslim Brotherhood, redeploying it as justification for the massacre. — Abdelrahman Elgendy, Time, 6 Oct. 2026

Word History

First Known Use

Verb

1945, in the meaning defined at transitive sense

Rhymes for redeploy

• corduroy
• fauntleroy
• iroquois
• ahoy
• alloy
• annoy
• carboy
• convoy
• cowboy
• decoy
• deploy
• destroy