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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Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. first said Sunday that the CDC would be redeploying to Texas at its governor's request, after another unvaccinated child died in the measles outbreak. Alexander Tin, CBS News, 7 Apr. 2025 The carrier arrived in Guam on March 24 before redeploying to the Middle East amid ongoing U.S. air strikes against the Houthis in Yemen. Ron Estes, MSNBC Newsweek, 31 Mar. 2025 Seoul, South Korea CNN — South Korea redeployed firefighting helicopters after a fatal crash caused a temporary grounding on Wednesday as authorities struggle to contain wildfires that have ravaged the country’s southeast, killing at least 24 people and destroying a centuries-old Buddhist temple. Gawon Bae and Kathleen Magramo, CNN Money, 26 Mar. 2025 But in 2023, its intelligence services, including the Federal Security Service, or FSB, the Foreign Intelligence Service, or SVR, and the GRU, began redeploying in Europe in what became a new kind of hybrid warfare campaign. Andrei Soldatov, Foreign Affairs, 20 Mar. 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 15 Apr. 2025.

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