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redeploy

/ˌˈridəˌplɔɪ/
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Other forms: redeployed; redeploying

To redeploy is to send out again or reassign to a new location, the way an army at war redeploys soldiers to places where there's new fighting.

A busy catering company might redeploy workers to a wedding reception that needs extra servers, and an aid agency could decide to redeploy additional doctors and nurses to a country that's suffered from earthquakes. To deploy is to move people, especially military troops. Add the "again" prefix, re-, and you're moving those troops to a new location or a new task.

Definitions of redeploy
  1. verb
    deploy anew
    “The U.S. must redeploy their troops in the Middle East”
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    type of:
    deploy
    to distribute systematically or strategically
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