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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Gardner, a software developer living near Asheville, N.C., came up with the idea after soldiering through “King Kong,” Peter Jackson’s 187-minute epic.
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
The attackers, believed to be linked to North Korea, built a fake developer tool and lured a Binance engineer to download it, Teng says.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 4, 2026
When we’re past Broadway, Papi sighs for the umpteenth time and says, “Colin’s selling the building. A developer offered him a lot of money.”
From "Pride" by Ibi Zoboi
And if new projects go to the firms most willing to make compromises, such as forgoing tax incentives, or making local investments, that again may just tilt the landscape toward the biggest or most-experienced developers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 5, 2026
The company is only just shipping its first fuel cells to Texas, where it has been underexposed as developers in the state favor natural-gas combustion technology, Dendrinos said.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 5, 2026
ElevenOneEleven will house as many as 500 people after it is completed in late 2028, and will include 52 units with subsidized affordable rents, the developers said.
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
Later on, developers realized how valuable the land was, sitting right on the river, with easy access to the city.
From "Monday's Not Coming" by Tiffany D. Jackson
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