deploy

Meanings

Verb

• To prepare and arrange (usually military unit or units) for use.
• To unfold, open, or otherwise become ready for use.
• To install, test and implement a computer system or application.

Noun

• deployment

Origin

• Borrowed from French déployer ("to unroll, unfold"), from Old French desploiier, itself from des- + ploiier, or possibly from Late Latin displicāre ("to unfold, display"), from Latin dis- ("apart") + plicare. display.