Redeploy

Part of speech: verb

Definitions

1. To transfer resources or staff to new locations or duties for better efficiency
2. To shift personnel or equipment from one position to another as needed
3. To reassign assets or workers to different tasks or areas within an organization

Etymology: Redeploy is a compound of "re-" and "deploy," and the second half carries most of the history. "Deploy" entered English from French "déployer," which meant to unfold or spread out, a sense rooted in the idea of unfolding a folded military formation. The military sense of arranging troops into battle position is the one that gave English the verb, so the word began as a term of the battlefield before it reached offices and supply chains. The prefix "re-" comes from Latin, where it meant "back" or "again," and it is traceable to a very ancient root shared across Indo-European languages. Attached to "deploy," it adds the sense of moving something once more into a new position, so to redeploy is to unfold a force again in a different place.

Synonyms: reassign, reposition, allocate

Antonyms: withdraw, dismiss