{
    "term": "deploy",
    "partOfSpeech": "verb",
    "ox5000": true,
    "cefr": "c1",
    "verbForms": {
        "presentSimple": {
            "iYouWeThey": "deploy",
            "heSheIt": "deploys"
        },
        "pastSimple": "deployed",
        "pastParticiple": "deployed",
        "ingForm": "deploying"
    },
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "to move soldiers or weapons into a position where they are ready for military action",
            "sensetop": "deploy somebody/something",
            "cefr": "c1",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "2 000 troops were deployed in the area."
                },
                {
                    "text": "At least 5 000 missiles were deployed along the border."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["War and conflict"],
            "collocations": {
                "adverb": ["effectively", "successfully", "widely"],
                "preposition": ["against"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "to use something effectively",
            "sensetop": "deploy something",
            "labels": "(formal)",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "to **deploy arguments/resources**"
                },
                {
                    "text": "She rejected the arguments that had been deployed against her."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Tanks were deployed effectively during the long campaign."
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "adverb": ["effectively", "successfully", "widely"],
                "preposition": ["against"]
            }
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/dɪˈplɔɪ/",
                "audio": "de/deploy/deploy__gb_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/dɪˈplɔɪz/",
                "audio": "de/deploy/deploys__gb_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/dɪˈplɔɪd/",
                "audio": "de/deploy/deployed__gb_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/dɪˈplɔɪɪŋ/",
                "audio": "de/deploy/deploying__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/dɪˈplɔɪ/",
                "audio": "de/deploy/deploy__us_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/dɪˈplɔɪz/",
                "audio": "de/deploy/deploys__us_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/dɪˈplɔɪd/",
                "audio": "de/deploy/deployed__us_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/dɪˈplɔɪɪŋ/",
                "audio": "de/deploy/deploying__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "late 18th cent.: from French déployer, from Latin displicare and late Latin deplicare ‘unfold or explain’, from dis-, de- ‘un-’ + plicare ‘to fold’. Compare with display."
}