deployed
- 1Simple past and past participle of deploy.
The company deployed additional staff to handle the holiday rush.
Once the update had been deployed, the network ran more smoothly.
Note
One spelling does two jobs. It is the plain past (the battalion deployed at dawn) and the participle after have or be (had deployed, was deployed). The verb began as a military word that works with or without an object, so troops can deploy or be deployed. The same choice carries over to parachutes and airbags that deploy on their own, and to software that a team has deployed.
The parachute deployed a few seconds after the jump.
Extra troops were deployed along the border overnight.
deployed is a form of deploy
deploy, verb: To prepare and arrange something, originally troops, so that it stands ready for use. Full entry
- Spelling
- deploy → deployed: add -ed
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /d/.
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