ployment

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English

Etymology

Back-formation from deployment.

Noun

ployment (countable and uncountable, plural ployments)

  1. (military) The act or movement of forming a column from a line of troops on some designated subdivision

Antonyms

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for ployment”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)