developer

[dih-vel-uh-per]

noun

1. a person or thing that develops or innovates.

   a software developer.

2. Photography.,  a reducing agent or solution for developing 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

/ 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

Word History and Origins

Origin of developer¹

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

Example Sentences

In China, plans by a major property developer to postpone repaying debt weighed on the CSI 300 index.

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It is among the few major Chinese developers that have yet to default amid the country’s massive property bust.

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He now works with other developers across the world through a studio called Twin Atlas.

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And there is every chance we will hear hints of a more powerful, more efficient, and possibly more profitable iteration of Nvidia’s rack-and-server system at the company’s next developers’ conference in March.

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More recently, Google has used the chips to train and operate its own Gemini large language models and sold them to customers including Anthropic, developer of the Claude AI model.

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Related Words

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