deploy

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• intransitive verb To position (troops) in readiness for combat, as along a front or line.
• intransitive verb To bring (forces or material) into action.
• intransitive verb To base (a weapons system) in the field.
• intransitive verb To distribute (persons or forces) systematically or strategically.
• intransitive verb To put into use or action.
• intransitive verb To be or become deployed.

from The Century Dictionary.

• noun Milit., the expansion or opening out of a body of troops previously compacted into a column, so as to present a more extended front.
• Milit., to expand; display; extend in a line of small depth, as a division or a battalion which has been previously formed in one or more columns.
• Milit., to open out; extend; move so as to form a more extended front or line: as, the regiment deployed to the right.
• To spread out, as the lower end of a valley glacier which extends out on a plain.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• verb (Mil.) To open out; to unfold; to spread out (a body of troops) in such a way that they shall display a wider front and less depth; -- the reverse of ploy.
• transitive verb To place (people or other resources) into a position so as to be ready to for action or use.
• noun (Mil.) The act of deploying; a spreading out of a body of men in order to extend their front.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• verb transitive To prepare and arrange (usually military unit or units) for use.
• verb intransitive To unfold, open, or otherwise become ready for use.
• verb computing to install, test and implement a computer system or application.
• noun military, dated deployment

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• verb to distribute systematically or strategically
• verb place troops or weapons in battle formation