developer
Americannoun
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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.
noun
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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 project will give thousands of people—young professionals, working families, seniors—the ability to live near excellent public transit and jobs,” said David Balducci, the project developer.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 2026
Another week, another Big Tech company putting up unusually large profit growth thanks to artificial-intelligence developer Anthropic — at least on paper.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 2, 2026
The identified developer did not respond to a request for comment about the property or its future.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 1, 2026
Beyer Blinder Belle, lead developer on the building's exterior, enlisted a speciality manufacturer in California to replicate and restore thousands of terra-cotta pieces from the facade, reinstalling each by hand.
From BBC ● Jul. 26, 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
On Monday, Chen filed another claim against the developers, The Madison Collection LLC, seeking to oust its property managers and transfer control to Panshi.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 1, 2026
But in most cases, they’re simply not available either because they are not as profitable for developers to construct or are barred by local zoning laws.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 1, 2026
Anthropic has signed more than a dozen preliminary lease agreements with U.S. developers and is aiming for at least 10 gigawatts of capacity over the next several years, according to people familiar with the matter.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 30, 2026
It admitted last week that its models broke out of their confined environment during testing, connected to the internet, and infiltrated Hugging Face, a site where developers store and share their code.
From Barron's ● Jul. 30, 2026
Down the block the neighborhood dead-ended in abandoned farmland that Mami read in the local paper the developers were negotiating to buy.
From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez
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