The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Deploy \De*ploy"\, v. t. & i. [imp. & p. p. Deployed; p. pr. &
   vb. n. Deploying.] [F. d['e]ployer; pref. d['e]? = d['e]s
   (L. dis) + ployer, equiv. to plier to fold, fr. L. plicare.
   See Ply, and cf. Display.] (Mil.)
   To open out; to unfold; to spread out (a body of troops) in
   such a way that they shall display a wider front and less
   depth; -- the reverse of ploy; as, to deploy a column of
   troops into line of battle.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

deploy \de*ploy"\, v. t.
   To place (people or other resources) into a position so as to
   be ready to for action or use.
   [PJC] Deploy

The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Deploy \De*ploy"\, Deployment \De*ploy"ment\, n. (Mil.)
   The act of deploying; a spreading out of a body of men in
   order to extend their front. --Wilhelm.
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         Deployments . . . which cause the soldier to turn his
         back to the enemy are not suited to war. --H. L. Scott.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

deploy
    v 1: place troops or weapons in battle formation
    2: to distribute systematically or strategically; "The U.S.
       deploys its weapons in the Middle East"

Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

113 Moby Thesaurus words for "deploy":
   aberrate, adduce, advance, allege, allocate, arrange, array,
   assign, branch, branch out, bring forward, bring on, bring to bear,
   clear for action, clear the decks, collocate, cool off, cure,
   disperse, dispose, divaricate, diverge, divide, dress, emplace,
   expand, extend, fan, fan out, fix, fix up, flare, form, get a fix,
   get ready, go away, go off, grade, harmonize, hierarchize,
   home in on, install, lay out, line up, localize, locate,
   make arrangements, make preparations, make ready, marshal,
   methodize, mobilize, navigate, normalize, offer, open, open up,
   order, organize, outspread, outstretch, overgrow, overrun, pacify,
   pin down, pinpoint, place, plan, plead, position, prearrange, prep,
   prepare, present, pretreat, process, produce, provide,
   put in place, put in shape, quiet, rally, ramify, rank, ready,
   ready up, regularize, regulate, routinize, separate, set up,
   settle preliminaries, situate, splay, spot, spraddle, sprangle,
   sprawl, spread, spread like wildfire, spread out, standardize,
   structure, systematize, tan, tranquilize, treat, triangulate, trim,
   try out, unfold, widen, zero in on