DEPLOYMENT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does deployment mean? 

• DEPLOYMENT (noun)
  The noun DEPLOYMENT has 1 sense:

1. the distribution of forces in preparation for battle or work

  Familiarity information: DEPLOYMENT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DEPLOYMENT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The distribution of forces in preparation for battle or work

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("deployment" is a kind of...):

preparation; readying (the activity of putting or setting in order in advance of some act or purpose)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "deployment"):

redeployment; redisposition (the withdrawal and redistribution of forces in an attempt to use them more effectively)

Derivation:

deploy (place troops or weapons in battle formation)

deploy (to distribute systematically or strategically)

 Context examples 

While several methods of ridding water of arsenic have been devised, cost has been a determining factor in actual deployment.

(Watermelon rind a cheap filter for arsenic in groundwater, SciDev.Net)

Issue associated with any deviations from specifications relating to device operations (e.g. deployment, connection, electrical, computer software, infusion/flow, output, protective-measure, and incompatibility issues).

(Medical Device Operational Issue, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

The 29-day deployment ended May 6 when the aircraft returned to its base in Palmdale, California, after 19 flights totaling 97 hours in the air.

(NASA airborne research focuses on Andean volcanoes, NASA)

A therapeutic procedure involving the injection or deployment of blocking agents in the hepatic artery to treat tumors.

(Hepatic Artery Embolization, NCI Thesaurus)