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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Deploy \De*ploy"\, Deployment \De*ploy"ment\, noun (Mil.) The act of deploying; a spreading out of a body of men in order to extend their front. --Wilhelm.
Deployments . . . which cause the soldier to turn his back to the enemy are not suited to war. --H. L. Scott.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Deploy \De*ploy"\, verb (used with an object) & i. [imp. & p. p. {Deployed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Deploying}.] [F. d['e]ployer; pref. d['e]? = d['e]s (L. dis) + ployer, equiv. to plier to fold, fr. L. plicare. See {Ply}, and cf. {Display}.] (Mil.) To open out; to unfold; to spread out (a body of troops) in such a way that they shall display a wider front and less depth; -- the reverse of ploy; as, to deploy a column of troops into line of battle.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
deploy \de*ploy"\, verb (used with an object) To place (people or other resources) into a position so as to be ready to for action or use. [PJC]
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
deploy
verb
1: place troops or weapons in battle formation
2: to distribute systematically or strategically; "The U.S. deploys its weapons in the Middle East"
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
113 Moby Thesaurus words for "deploy": aberrate, adduce, advance, allege, allocate, arrange, array, assign, branch, branch out, bring forward, bring on, bring to bear, clear for action, clear the decks, collocate, cool off, cure, disperse, dispose, divaricate, diverge, divide, dress, emplace, expand, extend, fan, fan out, fix, fix up, flare, form, get a fix, get ready, go away, go off, grade, harmonize, hierarchize, home in on, install, lay out, line up, localize, locate, make arrangements, make preparations, make ready, marshal, methodize, mobilize, navigate, normalize, offer, open, open up, order, organize, outspread, outstretch, overgrow, overrun, pacify, pin down, pinpoint, place, plan, plead, position, prearrange, prep, prepare, present, pretreat, process, produce, provide, put in place, put in shape, quiet, rally, ramify, rank, ready, ready up, regularize, regulate, routinize, separate, set up, settle preliminaries, situate, splay, spot, spraddle, sprangle, sprawl, spread, spread like wildfire, spread out, standardize, structure, systematize, tan, tranquilize, treat, triangulate, trim, try out, unfold, widen, zero in on
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