deployment

Pronunciation

• IPA: /dɪˈplɔɪ.mənt/^[1]

Etymology

It is borrowed from French déploiement, from déployer (“to deploy”) (see deploy).^[2][3]

Earliest recorded meaning

The act of deploying troops: 1796.^[2][4]

Semantic evolution

The OED defines it as the action of deploying, the same as the noun deploy.^[4]

Timeline

• 1796 – deployment.^[2][4]

Modern meaning

Noun

1. The act or movement of deploying, as of troops, or the state of being deployed.

Word family

• counterdeployment

Related words

• deploy
• display
• employ

References

1. ^ Jones, Daniel (2011), Cambridge English Pronouncing Dictionary, 18th ed., ed. Peter Roach, Jane Setter and John Esling, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
2. ^ a b c Harper, Douglas. Online Etymology Dictionary, https://www.etymonline.com
3. ^ Merriam-Webster Unabridged Dictionary (2024), online ed., Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster
4. ^ a b c Simpson, J. A.; Weiner, E. S. C., eds. (1989), The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd ed., Oxford: Clarendon Press