predeployment
English
Etymology
From pre- + deployment.
Adjective
predeployment (not comparable)
- Before deployment.
- 2007 January 10, David S. Cloud, “Bush’s Troop-Increase Plan Is Expected to Draw Six Guard Brigades to Iraq”, in The New York Times[1], New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 12 July 2022:
- He also said the Guard would like to shorten the predeployment training in the United States, and do more of it in the units’ home states to lessen the burden on their soldiers, who must leave civilian jobs to serve.
Noun
predeployment (uncountable)
- The act of predeploying; deployment in advance.