developer

[ dih-vel-uh-per ]

noun

1. a person or thing that develops or innovates:

   a software developer.

2. Photography. a reducing agent or solution for developing developing a film or the like.
3. a person who invests in and develops the urban or suburban potentialities of real estate, especially by subdividing the land into home sites and then building houses and selling them.
4. Shipbuilding. a person who lays out at full size the lines of a vessel and prepares templates from them.

developer

/ dɪˈvɛləpə /

noun

1. a person or thing that develops something, esp a person who develops property
2. photog a solution of a chemical reducing agent that converts the latent image recorded in the emulsion of a film or paper into a visible image

Word History and Origins

Origin of developer¹

First recorded in 1825–35; develop + -er ¹

Example Sentences

Facebook today warned its Facebook Audience Network publishers and developers that their revenue is likely to decrease as a result of the privacy changes Apple is making in its iOS 14 update, expected to land mid-September.

From Digiday

After zoning dictates what can legally be built, developers need to determine what can be built while turning a profit.

From Voice of San Diego

That bill would take San Diego’s so-called density bonus law – which lets developers build more housing on a given property if they agree to provide some low-income housing in exchange – and extend it to the rest of the state.

From Voice of San Diego

In its debut week, we already witnessed a developer build a search engine on top of GPT-3.

From Search Engine Watch

The two groups hoping to be the developers in charge of overhauling the Sports Arena land in the Midway District sat for interviews with Mayor Kevin Faulconer’s selection committee this week.

From Voice of San Diego

Last week, property owners were beaten by security guards as they confronted a real-estate developer who defrauded them.

From The Daily Beast

It was from a former Railroad Commission employee who had gone to work for an oil and gas developer.

From The Daily Beast

He was living under the alias Alonso Rivera Muñoz as a middling real estate developer and art collector in Querétaro.

From The Daily Beast

Almost like examining every game developer and game publication for signs of being “corrupted by the feminist agenda.”

From The Daily Beast

Raymond Bakker, a software developer and whitehat hacker, has taken the investigation a step further.

From The Daily Beast

They can also be placed over a tray when the plate is first covered with the developer if the plate is extremely sensitive.

From Project Gutenberg

We will send your ten cable chest developer, the wall parts, a pair of hand grips, foot strap and the course by return mail.

From Project Gutenberg

A bottle of prepared developer, which costs fifty cents, will tone from one hundred to one hundred and fifty prints 4 x 5.

From Project Gutenberg

It is then lowered into the cup of developer, the cover attached and the film left to develop for twenty minutes.

From Project Gutenberg

After we have prepared the hypo and the developer we are ready to develop the plate.

From Project Gutenberg

Related Words

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