deployable

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adjective

Able to be deployed.

Less commonScrabble 18

Meanings

adjectivedeployable (comparative more deployable, superlative most deployable)

comparative more deployable · superlative most deployable

  1. Able to be deployed.

    […] Germany had 284,500 active personnel in the armed forces with only 7500 readily deployable forces and 6810 committed to peace support operations; France had 259,050 personnel[…]

    2005 October 31, A. Forster, Armed Forces and Society in Europe, Springer, →ISBN, page 166
  2. Ejectable, separable from the aircraft.

    It played a significant role in the evolution of the deployable recorder, and offers an attractive alternative to "fixed recorders" in a "dual redundancy" installation (discussed later)

    2000, Canadian Aeronautics and Space Journal
    1 more example

    For example, helicopters that ditch at sea are often unrecoverable and consequently, despite the systems' higher cost and increased complexity, the Navy needed deployable recorder systems for its helicopters.

    2002, Aircraft & Aerospace Asia-Pacific
noundeployable (plural deployables)

plural deployables

  1. Something, such as a software package or a military resource, that may be deployed.

Origin

  1. Frenchdéployable
  2. Englishdeployable

From French déployable, deploy + -able.

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APA

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MLA

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Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “deployable,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/deployable.

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