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.
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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For web developer Yohan Mebrouk, the timeline is a sign of how serious the attack was.
From Barron's ● Nov. 7, 2026
At the same time, Moderna is pushing beyond its pandemic-era identity to become an oncology and broad mRNA developer.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2026
To counter them, the community centre held a meeting for residents last month alongside the building's developer.
From BBC ● Nov. 6, 2026
The electric air-taxi developer raised its sales forecast, but certification and cash needs remain central to its longer-term prospects.
From Barron's ● Nov. 5, 2026
Some crafty bond market person had gazed upon the subprime mortgage sprawl, as an ambitious real estate developer might gaze upon Oakland, and found an opportunity to rebrand some of the turf.
From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
Chip makers in Asia, power producers in Texas, software makers in Silicon Valley, contractors and data center developers all sank together.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2026
Bloom’s fuel cells give hyperscalers and data-center developers a faster on-site option amid grid delays and backlogs in the production of natural-gas turbines, they said.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 5, 2026
The developers secured nearly $133 million in construction financing from an Arkansas bank last month.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 5, 2026
"The congressional scrutiny could accelerate demands for AI safety standards, independent model evaluations and greater accountability for data centre developers," she added.
From Barron's ● Nov. 5, 2026
The developers built the outer structure quickly and then left it, abandoned and unfinished, its unpaned windows staring emptily out into the Brooklyn skies.
From "Shadowshaper" by Daniel José Older
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