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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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
Last summer, top Chinese chip developer Huawei Technologies held a closed-door briefing for the country’s technology czar to introduce its latest artificial-intelligence chips.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 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
On the surface, Witkoff seems like Trump, a New York real estate developer turned world dealmaker.
From Slate ● Jul. 22, 2026
Ralph had tipped Grover off about the developer being in over his head; Grover was thinking to buy him out.
From "Typical American" by Gish Jen
Leading the Future worked to defeat New York state assemblyman Alex Bores, who sponsored the state’s new AI law, which aimed to impose safety measures on developers, such as security protocols and incident reports.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 29, 2026
But representatives of developers, property owners and business groups raised concerns about the costs and requirements that they said are sometimes unclear.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 29, 2026
Data-center developers have gone on their own borrowing binges to build capacity for Meta.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 28, 2026
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
How we have been selling off chunks of the orchard to developers.
From "The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle" by Leslie Connor
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