diff --git a/docs/man/man1/kubectl-expose.1 b/docs/man/man1/kubectl-expose.1
index f7922bd0fb2..a8342e55d42 100644
--- a/docs/man/man1/kubectl-expose.1
+++ b/docs/man/man1/kubectl-expose.1
@@ -13,12 +13,12 @@ kubectl expose \- Take a replication controller, service or pod and expose it as
 
 .SH DESCRIPTION
 .PP
-Take a replication controller, service, replica set or pod and expose it as a new Kubernetes service.
+Take a replication controller, service, replica set, deployment or pod and expose it as a new Kubernetes service.
 
 .PP
-Looks up a replication controller, service, replica set or pod by name and uses the selector for that
-resource as the selector for a new service on the specified port. A replica set will be exposed as a
-service only if it's selector is convertible to a selector that service supports, i.e. when the
+Looks up a replication controller, service, replica set, deployment or pod by name and uses the selector
+for that resource as the selector for a new service on the specified port. A replica set will be exposed
+as a service only if it's selector is convertible to a selector that service supports, i.e. when the
 replica set selector contains only the matchLabels component. Note that if no port is specified
 via \-\-port and the exposed resource has multiple ports, all will be re\-used by the new service. Also
 if no labels are specified, the new service will re\-use the labels from the resource it exposes.
diff --git a/docs/user-guide/kubectl/kubectl_expose.md b/docs/user-guide/kubectl/kubectl_expose.md
index 9d03a85fef1..1b5fb12f669 100644
--- a/docs/user-guide/kubectl/kubectl_expose.md
+++ b/docs/user-guide/kubectl/kubectl_expose.md
@@ -39,11 +39,11 @@ Take a replication controller, service or pod and expose it as a new Kubernetes
 ### Synopsis
 
 
-Take a replication controller, service, replica set or pod and expose it as a new Kubernetes service.
+Take a replication controller, service, replica set, deployment or pod and expose it as a new Kubernetes service.
 
-Looks up a replication controller, service, replica set or pod by name and uses the selector for that
-resource as the selector for a new service on the specified port. A replica set will be exposed as a
-service only if it's selector is convertible to a selector that service supports, i.e. when the
+Looks up a replication controller, service, replica set, deployment or pod by name and uses the selector
+for that resource as the selector for a new service on the specified port. A replica set will be exposed
+as a service only if it's selector is convertible to a selector that service supports, i.e. when the
 replica set selector contains only the matchLabels component. Note that if no port is specified
 via --port and the exposed resource has multiple ports, all will be re-used by the new service. Also
 if no labels are specified, the new service will re-use the labels from the resource it exposes.
@@ -137,7 +137,7 @@ kubectl expose deployment nginx --port=80 --target-port=8000
 
 * [kubectl](kubectl.md)	 - kubectl controls the Kubernetes cluster manager
 
-###### Auto generated by spf13/cobra on 18-Mar-2016
+###### Auto generated by spf13/cobra on 19-Mar-2016
 
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diff --git a/pkg/kubectl/cmd/expose.go b/pkg/kubectl/cmd/expose.go
index 13eb6101441..4661801f8bf 100644
--- a/pkg/kubectl/cmd/expose.go
+++ b/pkg/kubectl/cmd/expose.go
@@ -37,11 +37,11 @@ type ExposeOptions struct {
 }
 
 const (
-	expose_long = `Take a replication controller, service, replica set or pod and expose it as a new Kubernetes service.
+	expose_long = `Take a replication controller, service, replica set, deployment or pod and expose it as a new Kubernetes service.
 
-Looks up a replication controller, service, replica set or pod by name and uses the selector for that
-resource as the selector for a new service on the specified port. A replica set will be exposed as a
-service only if it's selector is convertible to a selector that service supports, i.e. when the
+Looks up a replication controller, service, replica set, deployment or pod by name and uses the selector 
+for that resource as the selector for a new service on the specified port. A replica set will be exposed 
+as a service only if it's selector is convertible to a selector that service supports, i.e. when the
 replica set selector contains only the matchLabels component. Note that if no port is specified
 via --port and the exposed resource has multiple ports, all will be re-used by the new service. Also
 if no labels are specified, the new service will re-use the labels from the resource it exposes.`