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redeploy

/ˌriːdɪˈplɔɪ/

B2CEFR level
50/100Rarity: uncommon
TechnicalRegister

Law verb

To move an employee to a different role or location rather than dismiss them.

The company tried to redeploy the affected staff before confirming any redundancies.

Similar: reassign, relocate

Topic: Employment law in Legal English

Business verb

To move staff from one role or area to another where they are more needed, often to avoid redundancy.

Rather than lay them off, we redeployed the affected clerks into the growing support team.

Similar: reassign

Topic: Human resources in Business English

Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.

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