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 developer plans to break ground in September on a master-planned community to include more than 7,200 homes, offices, shops and parks.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 29, 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
About 15 years ago, the FDA briefly granted the peptide an orphan-drug designation, which provides incentives to a developer to work on therapies for diseases that affect fewer than 200,000 people in the U.S.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 23, 2026
Many did not want to speak at all; one developer mistakenly sent me an email that said, “steer clear..do not want to engage.”
From Slate ● Jul. 22, 2026
In Georgia, he was the kind of web developer who made money, until he got laid off the day before Christmas.
From "What If It's Us" by Becky Albertalli and Adam Silvera
The party said the cost of its policy to developers would be small compared to the overall cost of building a home, and that cooler homes would be more attractive to buyers in the future.
From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2026
Irving will be going up against a bevy of other legal AI upstarts and the major AI developers themselves as well as established firms, each of which have been charting their own futures with AI.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 26, 2026
Tasked with hunting for software vulnerabilities and given no guardrails, the models broke out onto the open internet and attacked Hugging Face, a site where developers store and share code.
From Barron's ● Jul. 24, 2026
Sandy Steers, former executive director of Friends of Big Bear Valley, helped broker the deal between the land trust and developers.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 24, 2026
For the plasterwork alone, the developers brought in 250 Italian artisans.
From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson
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