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
Etymology
Origin of developer
Example Sentences
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Thanks to a new design and financing approach—and a real-estate developer in the White House—a plan is on track.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 13, 2026
The Shanghai-based web developer says he finds the weekly calls with his parents stressful.
From BBC • Jun. 13, 2026
In December of 2023, the supervisors selected Centennial Partners, a team made up of Primestor Development and Bayspring Real Estate Partners, as the master developer.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 12, 2026
Four decades ago, Donald Trump was a New York City developer at work on an apartment complex that would bear his name.
From Slate • Jun. 11, 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
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