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Where does “redeployment” come from?

Redeployment comes from French déploiement, from French déployer, with the suffix -ment from Middle French, ultimately from Latin re- and -mentum, derived from Latin ex meaning out.

redeployment (English): The act of redeploying; A new deployment

Definitions

  1. The act of redeploying; A new deployment

Ancestry of “redeployment”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishdeploymentAn arrangement or classification of things; An...
2Frenchdéploiementdeployment, deploying
3Frenchdéployerto spread out, to unfold; to deploy
4Middle FrenchdesployerAlternative form of desploier
5Old Frenchdesploier—
6LatindeplicoI unfold; I explain
7Latindē-—
8Latindē—
9Latinpostbehind; after, since, besides, except; behind,...
10Latinposteablative singular of postis
11Proto-Italicposti—
12Proto-Indo-Europeanpósti—
13Proto-Indo-Europeanpósafterwards, post; by, at
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