redisposition

1. 1.

   the withdrawal and redistribution of forces in an attempt to use them more effectively

   Synonymsredeployment

   Broaderdeployment

Other forms of redisposition

plural

redispositions·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about redisposition

What does redisposition mean?

redisposition means "the withdrawal and redistribution of forces in an attempt to use them more effectively".

How many syllables are in redisposition?

redisposition has 6 syllables: re-di-spo-si-ti-on. The stress falls on "ti".

What is another word for redisposition?

Close synonyms include redeployment. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is redisposition a common word?

redisposition is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.