🇬🇧🇪🇸 deploy - desplegar : English Lesson

Meaning of "deploy" ("desplegar"), detailed definition, and a short video lesson below.

To deploy means to send soldiers or important equipment out to a certain place so they are in the right spot and ready to be used when needed, like carefully placing pieces on a game board before the game starts.

Watch and listen to this English flashcard to understand the word in more detail, with an easy example sentence.

The principal deployed extra teachers to the cafeteria after the mashed-potato catapult incident.

The underwater king deployed his crab army, but they kept getting distracted by shiny sea shells.

During hide-and-seek, I deployed my army of stuffed animals to guard my super-obvious hiding spot behind the curtain.

The general tried to deploy his soldiers, but they were all busy chasing a chicken that had stolen someone’s sandwich.

In real life, armies carefully deploy soldiers and equipment in safe, organized ways.

She shouted, 'deploy the boats, deploy the ropes, deploy the lights.' Workers deploy sandbags along the rising river. Children help to deploy small boards. Exhausted, they deploy the last barrier and hold hands. The water pauses at the wall; the town breathes, and people cry with relief. A mother hugs a shivering child.

This word is at the C2 level, which means it represents the highest mastery of English. It’s often used in specialized or highly formal contexts and helps you communicate with precision and subtlety, much like a native speaker.

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