deployment - Wiktionary, the free dictionary


Article Images

From French déploiement. Also de- +‎ ployment.

deployment (countable and uncountable, plural deployments)

  1. An arrangement or classification of things.
  2. An implementation, or putting into use, of something.
  3. The distribution of military forces prior to battle.

    • 1861, H. L. Scott, Military Dictionary: Comprising Technical Definitions:

      Deployments […] which cause the soldier to turn his back to the enemy are not suited to war.

  4. (parachuting) the start of something

implementation, or putting into use, of something

distribution of military forces prior to battle

when used in the context of parachuting: the start of something