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developer

American  
[dih-vel-uh-per] / dɪˈvɛl ə pər /

noun

  1. a person or thing that develops or innovates.

    a software developer.

  2. Photography. a reducing agent or solution for 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 British  
/ 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

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Etymology

Origin of developer

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

Example Sentences

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Technology stocks struggled after The Wall Street Journal reported ChatGPT developer OpenAI missed its own revenue and growth targets.

From Barron's • Apr. 28, 2026

President Trump is listed as a co-founder emeritus, as is Steve Witkoff, the real estate developer who serves as Trump’s Middle East envoy with responsibility for negotiating a peace deal with Iran.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 28, 2026

For Wall Street, it raises a different question entirely: Can anyone afford to acquire the drug’s developer?

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 28, 2026

Allen describes himself as a mechanical engineer, game developer and teacher on LinkedIn.

From BBC • Apr. 26, 2026

She would crack the bathroom window and go to bed, and by the time Pearl woke, the sour smell of developer would be gone.

From "Little Fires Everywhere" by Celeste Ng

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