Piracy has transformed into a well-developed business and I am part of that business.
Three months ago, what was on display was the well-developed British talent for carping, sneering, and nitpicking.
Members of the high court have well-developed legal philosophies.
As a candidate, he had no well-developed policy on bank bailouts, fiscal stimulus, or trillion-dollar-plus deficits.
I knew how to draw a little, and had a well-developed sense of colour.
But other members of the group to which the whale belongs have well-developed teeth in both jaws.
In short, to be a good scout is to be a well-developed, well-informed boy.
If for twenty-four, we might have the liquid charged with well-developed bacteria.
Intelligent also must they be, of well-developed and well-trained minds.
As for the last member of the family, Varenika, she was a well-developed girl of sixteen.
1650s, "unroll, unfold," from French développer, replacing English disvelop (1590s, from Middle French desveloper), both from Old French desveloper "unwrap, unfurl, unveil; reveal the meaning of, explain," from des- "undo" + veloper "wrap up," of uncertain origin, possibly Celtic or Germanic. Modern figurative use is 18c. The photographic sense is from 1845; the real estate sense is from 1890.
develop de·vel·op (dĭ-věl'əp)
v. de·vel·oped, de·vel·op·ing, de·vel·ops
To progress from earlier to later stages of a life cycle.
To progress from earlier to later or from simpler to more complex stages of evolution.
To aid in the growth of; strengthen.
To grow by degrees into a more advanced or mature state.
To become affected with a disease; contract.
