单词 | redeploy |
释义 | redeployv. 1. intransitive. Of troops, labour, etc.: to move to a new area; to undertake a new activity or task. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > advantage > usefulness > use (made of things) > be in use or called into use [verb (intransitive)] > apply to another use redeploy1869 1869 Evening Tel. (Philadelphia) 25 May 8/2 The brigade, after this wearisome job, take a short rest and an inventory of stock, and find that they have made a very successful venture, numerically considered. Then they redeployed, and again prepared for action. 1945 Sunday Times 27 May 7 Re-deploying to crush Japan. 1958 Times 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. 1989 T. Clancy Clear & Present Danger xxvi. 560 Within an hour, the hunter groups were coming down off the mountains to redeploy. 1993 N.Y. Times 28 Nov. i. 24/6 Had I known the battalion would redeploy to Fort Polk, I'm pretty sure I'd still be wearing B.D.U.'s. 2. transitive. To transfer (troops, labour, resources, etc.) to a new area; to assign to a new activity or task. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > advantage > usefulness > use (made of things) > use or make use of [verb (transitive)] > use for specific purpose > to another use convert1480 redeploy1945 1945 Nebraska State Jrnl. 10 Mar. 1/6 The problem of redeploying forces after V-E day will be the most difficult yet. 1949 Manch. Guardian Weekly 28 Apr. 3/3 A very extensive proportion of this industry could be redeployed within six months. 1970 New Society 5 Mar. 389/1 The unification of hitherto separate services..should make it easier to recruit and redeploy social service staff. 1984 R. Reagan Let. 16 Feb. in Dear Americans (2003) 154 We..began studying how we could redeploy our forces and still help bring about peace. 2002 S. J. Gould Struct. Evolutionary Theory xi. 1226 This one little avian lineage would redeploy those old thermoregulatory organs for yet another novel task of shading water. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < v.1869 |
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