"deploy" meaning in English

See deploy in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Verb

IPA: /dɪˈplɔɪ/ Audio: en-us-deploy.oga [US] Forms: deploy [canonical], deploys [third-person, singular], deployed [past], deployed [past, participle], deploying [present, participle]
Head templates: {{verb}} [POS TABLE]
  1. If a country deploy troops, they prepare and arrange them for military action.
    Sense id: simple-deploy-en-verb-BKuC~dte
  2. If you deploy something, you open it or otherwise make it ready for use.
    Sense id: simple-deploy-en-verb-TD88FOAd
     
{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "deploy",
      "tags": [
        "canonical"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "deploys",
      "tags": [
        "third-person",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "deployed",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "deployed",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "participle"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "deploying",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "participle"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "expansion": "[POS TABLE]",
      "name": "verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "Deploy two units of infantry along the enemy's flank,\" the general ordered."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "If a country deploy troops, they prepare and arrange them for military action."
      ],
      "id": "simple-deploy-en-verb-BKuC~dte",
      "raw_tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "He waited tensely for his parachute to deploy."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "If you deploy something, you open it or otherwise make it ready for use."
      ],
      "id": "simple-deploy-en-verb-TD88FOAd",
      "raw_tags": [
        "transitive & intransitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/dɪˈplɔɪ/"
    },
    {
      "audio": "en-us-deploy.oga",
      "raw_tags": [
        "Audio"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "deploy"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "deploy",
      "tags": [
        "canonical"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "deploys",
      "tags": [
        "third-person",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "deployed",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "deployed",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "participle"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "deploying",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "participle"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "expansion": "[POS TABLE]",
      "name": "verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Transitive verbs"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "Deploy two units of infantry along the enemy's flank,\" the general ordered."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "If a country deploy troops, they prepare and arrange them for military action."
      ],
      "raw_tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "Intransitive verbs",
        "Transitive verbs"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "He waited tensely for his parachute to deploy."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "If you deploy something, you open it or otherwise make it ready for use."
      ],
      "raw_tags": [
        "transitive & intransitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/dɪˈplɔɪ/"
    },
    {
      "audio": "en-us-deploy.oga",
      "raw_tags": [
        "Audio"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "deploy"
}

Download raw JSONL data for deploy meaning in English (1.0kB)

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-04-16 from the simplewiktionary dump dated 2025-04-03 using wiktextract (b0b7a66 and 3185d56). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.