developer
Americannoun
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developers
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a person or thing that develops or innovates.
a software developer.
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Photography. a reducing agent or solution for developing a film or the like.
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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.
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Shipbuilding. a person who lays out at full size the lines of a vessel and prepares templates from them.
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a person or thing that develops something, esp a person who develops property
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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
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The WSJ reported earlier on how one data center developer was offering each of the 4,500 households in Hazle Township, Penn. $10,000 checks to allow for construction.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026
The retired announcer snapped up the 1,244-square-foot dwelling in 2017, purchasing it from the building’s developer the year it was built.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 2, 2026
Enerflex stock rises sharply after it secures a contract to build generators for a data center developer.
From Barron's ● Oct. 1, 2026
Picture a developer trying to build a hillside home; a commission that’s wary of such projects could reject it, while another commission that leans more pro-housing could approve it.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026
The developer had even started running pipes across National Park land in the confident—but, as it happened, mistaken—presumption that the Park Service wouldn’t have the will or money to stop him.
From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson
That numbers-backed thinking means engineers, software developers or entrepreneurs might all find it more appealing than humanities graduates, Lechterman said.
From Barron's ● Oct. 2, 2026
“If developers are running away from the city of L.A., we gotta know why. We gotta go back to the drawing board. We gotta accept when we make mistakes, including myself,” Ugarte said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026
Google is rolling out the new model to a set of cybersecurity companies before making it available to developers, customers, and consumers at a later date.
From Barron's ● Sep. 30, 2026
But generally the drones arrive mission-ready, partially a result of “continuous feedback” with Ukraine’s arms developers, says the field commander, who goes by the call sign Cousteau.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026
“Yeah? And what do the developers do with it?”
From "Tangerine" by Edward Bloor
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