redeploy

[ ree-di-ploi ]

verb (used with object)

1. to transfer (a unit, a person, supplies, etc.) from one theater of operations to another.
2. to move or allocate to a different position, use, function, or the like; reassign.

verb (used without object)

1. to execute a redeployment.

redeploy

/ ˌriːdɪˈplɔɪ /

verb

1. to assign new positions or tasks to (labour, troops, etc)

Derived Forms

• ˌredeˈployment, noun

Other Words From

• rede·ployment noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of redeploy¹

First recorded in 1940–45; re- + deploy

Example Sentences

He went on to found a nonprofit that “redeployed” veterans to their communities to work on service projects, and he spoke at Harvard about how as a country “we need to connect with people and tell them that they are needed” to serve.

From Time

The good news is this challenge can be met head-on by redeploying our existing formidable public health and medical arsenal.

From Time

He’s stuck making sandwiches somewhere in Montana and he’s dead broke, desperate to be redeployed.

From Time

I mean, it was only a year later that he whipped back to Moscow and then was redeployed to Japan.

From Freakonomics

After the team’s abysmal first half, Berhalter kept him in the match but altered the formation, returning to three forwards instead of two and redeploying a four-man back line instead of three.

From Washington Post

On April 15, Breedlove is scheduled to present a U.S. plan to redeploy assets in Europe as a response to the Ukraine crisis.

From The Daily Beast

That point is sometime in the late forties or early fifties, making it harder to redeploy labor from struggling sectors.

From The Daily Beast

The longer U.S. combat brigades stay in Iraq, the longer it will take to redeploy them to Afghanistan.

From The Daily Beast