| 释义 |
redeˈploy, v.
[re- 5 a.]
a. intr. To carry out redeployment; to change employment to increase overall efficiency.
b. trans. To move (troops, labour, materials, etc.) from one area of activity to another.
1945Sunday Times 27 May 7 Re-deploying to crush Japan. 1945Sat. Rev. Lit. (U.S.) 16 June 12/1 Others stated that the plan to redeploy troops from Europe was a great mistake. 1948Picture Post 3 Apr. 11/2 Labour forces had to be redeployed. 1949Manch. Guardian Weekly 28 Apr. 3/3 A very extensive proportion of this industry could be redeployed within six months. 1958Times Lit. Suppl. 22 Aug. 473/2 Organized labour cannot be induced to redeploy over the day-shift, thus releasing labour for a second day (and sometimes a third night) shift. 1966Hansard Commons 20 June 628 Action is needed equally to deal with the problem of internal demand, public and private, and to redeploy resources, both manpower and capacity, according to national priorities, and check inflation. 1970New Society 5 Mar. 389/1 The unification of hitherto separate services..should make it easier to recruit and redeploy social service staff. 1971Brit. Jrnl. Industrial Relations July 160 Some believed that there was a vast pool of under-used labour and that a short sharp burst of deflation would force companies to release surplus manpower which could then be redeployed into the essential export industries. 1980Times 29 Feb. 19 Hawker's philosophy since aerospace nationalization has been to redeploy its resources into the electrical and mechanical engineering business it knows well.
Hence redeˈployable a., available for redeployment, able to be redeployed.
1946I. Shaw in New Yorker 2 Feb. 24/2 ‘I'm redeployable,’ Olson sang. |