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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Across the 1,000-kilometer (621-mile) frontline, according to analysts, the Ukrainian military has to decide which areas are under greatest threat, where to withdraw, how to redeploy – even as many brigades are seriously under-strength more than three years after the Russian invasion. Tim Lister, CNN Money, 29 May 2025 Image Finnish defense officials predict that if the high-intensity phase of the Ukraine war ends — one of the goals of the struggling peace efforts unfolding in Turkey — Russia will redeploy thousands of troops to the Finnish frontier. Johanna Lemola, New York Times, 19 May 2025 At least since the latest batch of currency controls were put in place, first by Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, temporarily suspended and later redeployed by Mauricio Macri, and later extended by both Alberto Fernández and Javier Milei until the recent IMF deal. Agustino Fontevecchia, Forbes.com, 23 Apr. 2025 In a city where a firetruck will often arrive before an ambulance during a medical emergency, Lightfoot was hardly the first politician to consider redeploying firefighters in order to increase ambulance staffing at the expense of those on trucks. Alice Yin, Chicago Tribune, 8 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for redeploy

Word History

First Known Use

1945, in the meaning defined at transitive sense

Time Traveler
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 2 Jun. 2025.

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