All 7 Uses of
deploy
in
Unbroken, by Hillenbrand
- Crazy in love, the two talked about running off to get hitched right then, but reconsidered, deciding to marry at his next training venue and live together there until he was deployed.
p. 57.8deployed = sent out for military duty (activated)
- Strong's B-24 was nearly cut in two, and the mine's parachute deployed, dragging the plane down.
p. 84.5 *deployed = activated
- Life rafts were deployed manually: from inside the plane, crewmen could pull a release handle just before ditching or crashing; from outside a floating plane, they could climb on the wings and turn raft-release levers.
p. 85.7
- Once deployed, rafts inflated automatically.
p. 85.8deployed = placed or activated
- Once deployed, he graduated to mayonnaise jars and ketchup bottles.†
p. 90.2
- Touching down at a scorching 140 miles per hour, Pratte ordered his men to deploy three parachutes.†
p. 103.9deploy = place or activate
- Because life rafts didn't deploy automatically in a crash, it was the engineer's duty to stand behind the cockpit to pull the overhead raft-release handle.
p. 118.7deploy = get placed and activate
Definition:
to place or activate a resource