redeploy
/ˌriːdɪˈplɔɪ/ verb [T]Definition
› HR, WORKPLACE, MANAGEMENT to move employees to a different job, or to send them to work in a different place: redeploy sb in/within sth The bank hopes to redeploy most of the affected staff in customer-service jobs.
› to use money or other assets for a different purpose from the one they were originally intended for: Destruction of the country's manufacturing industry over the past 15 years indicates how swiftly capital and labour can be redeployed.redeploy assets/resources/funds The government should be thinking about redeploying assets and resources to those areas of the economy that are doing well.
(Definition of redeploy verb from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary
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