redeployment

«redeployment» in Mova's school dictionary: Moving people, soldiers, workers or equipment to a… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (redeployment, redeployments) — formal

meaning for a pupil

Moving people, soldiers, workers or equipment to a different place or job where they are needed more. tree →

sense in the lessons

In news and formal language, the redeployment of troops, police or staff means sending them somewhere else. In business it can be a softer way to say workers are moved, sometimes instead of losing jobs. Verb: redeploy.

examples

• The redeployment of nurses helped the busy hospital. tree →
• After the storm there was a redeployment of rescue teams to the coast. tree →
• The army announced the redeployment of soldiers. tree →
• The company offered redeployment instead of job losses. tree →
• Redeployment of buses to the busy route cut waiting times. tree →

note

Formal and long; in everyday talk say «moving» or «sending». Built from re- (again) + deploy (put in place) + -ment.

In the corpora

• "Tactical redeployment" is military jargon for a retreat.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «redeployment» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.